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" I'm not a film snob. "
Tracey Ullman
Snob
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" It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. "
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" My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. "
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" I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine. "
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" Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? "
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" 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. "
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" I'm sick of environmentalism. "
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