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" 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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" 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. "

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People

See

Disrespect

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

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Never

Ridiculous

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

Tracey Ullman

You

Child

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

" 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. "

" 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

Good

" 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! "

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

" I just want to do good 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. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing I won't attempt. "

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Nothing

Attempt

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I'm as famous as I want to be. "

Tracey Ullman

Famous

Want

" 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. "

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

" As I get older, I just prefer to knit. "

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

Tracey Ullman

Because

Who

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

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

" I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else. "

" I'm not a film snob. "

Tracey Ullman

Snob

Film

" Every character I do is based on someone I know. "

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

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