Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin. "
Tracey Ullman
Carol
I Love
Late
Related Quotes:
" I like going to France, because no one knows who I am. "
Tracey Ullman
Because
Like
Who
" I hate clowns. "
Tracey Ullman
Hate
Clowns
" I love documentaries, I like observing real people. "
Tracey Ullman
Like
People
Observing
" It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. "
Tracey Ullman
Find
Out
People
" I'm as famous as I want to be. "
Tracey Ullman
Famous
Want
" 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
People
See
Disrespect
" Every character I do is based on someone I know. "
Tracey Ullman
Every
Know
Character
" My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. "
Tracey Ullman
Influences
British
Character
" 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
Pressure
Grow
Life
" The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down. "
Tracey Ullman
Up
Irish
Down
" 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
Head
Home
Girl
" I'm sick of environmentalism. "
Tracey Ullman
Sick
Environmentalism
" It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me. "
Tracey Ullman
Gets
Poignancy
Sadness
" An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country. "
Tracey Ullman
Country
Saying
First Amendment
" I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. "
Tracey Ullman
Positive
Doing
Always
" 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
Audience
Know
Like
" 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
Taste
Beyond
Love
" I've always been a misfit. "
Tracey Ullman
Been
Always
" 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
Coach
American
Never
" I like infomercials. "
Tracey Ullman
Like
" I'm fascinated by Bollywood. "
Tracey Ullman
Fascinated
Bollywood
" I'm usually put off by performers when they get political. "
Tracey Ullman
Performers
Political
Put
" 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
You
Know
Work
" 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
Saw
Twenty
Years
" Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? "
Tracey Ullman
Space
Think
Future
" I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person. "
Tracey Ullman
Crazy
Sort
Person
" It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them. "
Tracey Ullman
No Idea
Funny
Somebody
" Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. "
Tracey Ullman
Work
Important
Doing
" There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't. "
Tracey Ullman
Thought
Class
Girl
" 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
Neighbor
She
Always