Tracey Ullman famous quotes

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Funny #Witty #Funny Life

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

#Thinking #America #Perception

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

#Ridiculous #Advertisements #Offers

I just want to do good work.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Want #Good Work

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

#Who I Am #France

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
-- Tracey Ullman

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Doors #Missing #Wool

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

#Years #Saws #Twenties

Every character I do is based on someone I know.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Character

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

#Stars #Thinking #Talking

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

#Funny #Ideas

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.'
-- Tracey Ullman

#Dad #Growing Up #Kids

I think serial monogamy says it all.
-- Tracey Ullman

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Mean #People #Cynical

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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Children #Different #Gone

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

#Believe #People #Sometimes

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

#People

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

#Political #Satire #Surface

I've always been a misfit.
-- Tracey Ullman

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Stars #Voice #People

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

#Dog #Dollars #Letterman

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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#People #Want #England

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

#Crazy #Party #Persons

I'm sick of environmentalism.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Sick #Environmentalism

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

#Character #African American #Reactions

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

#Careers #Juncture

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

#Children #Nice #Toys

There's nothing I won't attempt.
-- Tracey Ullman

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

#Kids #Thinking #Two

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

#Keys #Locks #Key To Success

I'm as famous as I want to be.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Want

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

#Important #Doing Me #Want

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!
-- Tracey Ullman

#Girl #Needs #Timeless

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

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Girl #Home #Vegetables

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

#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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Scene #Expected

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

#Lilies #Carols

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Believe #Differences #Making A Difference

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

#Children #Perspective #Giving

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

#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
-- Tracey Ullman

#Ambition #Burning #Plans

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Bollywood