Tracey Ullman Quotes

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think serial monogamy says it all.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's nothing I won't attempt.

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

I just want to do good work.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

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.

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

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.'

I've always been a misfit.

I'm as famous as I want to be.

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.

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

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

I'm sick of environmentalism.