Tracey Ullman Quotes (31 Quotes)




    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.




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


    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.

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

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


    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.

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Every character I do is based on someone I know.

    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.

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

    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.

    Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.

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

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


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