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Tracey Ullman Quotes:

Tracey Ullman quotes

Ocupation: Actress

Life: b. December 30, 1959

Birthday: December 30

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As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

source: - Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

Topics: Funny, Witty, Funny Life

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I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

Topics: Thinking, America, Perception

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

Topics: Ridiculous, Advertisements, Offers

I just want to do good work.

Topics: Want, Good Work

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

Topics: Who I Am, France

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

Topics: Real, People, Documentaries

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Topics: Movie, Water, Stuff

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

Topics: Hate, Insulting, Would Be

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

source: - "Q&A: Tracey Ullman" by Devin Gordon, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

Topics: Doors, Missing, Wool, Next Door Neighbors, Impersonate

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Topics: Years, Saws, Twenties

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

Topics: Character

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

source: - "Tracking Tracey". "Interview" Magazine, January 1989.

Topics: Stars, Thinking, Talking, Aluminum Foil

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Topics: Funny, Ideas, Impersonate

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Topics: Dad, Growing Up, Kids

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Topics: Funny, Life, Witty

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

Topics: Mean, People, Cynical, Mean Spirited

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Topics: Passionate, Lines, Lasts

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.

Topics: Children, Different, Gone, Types Of Love, Never Stop Loving

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

Topics: Believe, People, Sometimes, Shocking

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

Topics: People, Impersonate

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Topics: Political, Satire, Surface, Political Satire

I've always been a misfit.

source: - "Tracey Ullman returns to BBC with first television series in 30 years" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2016.

Topics: Misfits

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

Topics: Stars, Voice, People

Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?

Topics: Dog, Dollars, Letterman, Dog Food

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

Topics: People, Want, England

I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.

Topics: Crazy, Party, Persons

I'm sick of environmentalism.

Topics: Sick, Environmentalism

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Topics: Character, African American, Reactions, American Character

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

Topics: Careers, Juncture

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

Topics: Children, Nice, Toys, Some Nice, Housekeeping

There's nothing I won't attempt.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

Topics: Kids, Thinking, Two

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

Topics: Keys, Locks, Key To Success

I'm as famous as I want to be.

source: - "ULLMAN, BY HOOK & BY 'CROOKS' Tracey's tireless efforts landed her a role as Woody Allen's leading lady" by Nancy Mills, www.nydailynews.com. May 14, 2000.

Topics: Want

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Topics: Important, Doing Me, Want, Just Doing Me

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

Topics: Girl, Needs, Timeless

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Topics: Character, Actors, Influence

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

Topics: Girl, Home, Vegetables

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

Topics: Sadness, Poignancy

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

Topics: Scene, Expected

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

Topics: Lilies, Carols

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

Topics: Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child

Topics: Children, Perspective, Giving

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political

Topics: Political, Performers

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

Topics: Ambition, Burning, Plans

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

Topics: Bollywood

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