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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. "

Tracey Ullman

Head

Home

Girl

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Film

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Who

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Ridiculous

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

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" I'm sick of environmentalism. "

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Sick

Environmentalism

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Audience

Know

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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? "

" 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. "

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Down

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