Tracey Ullman Quotes

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

I like infomercials.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

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.

If God had intended breasts to be seen, he wouldn't have invented large woolen pullovers.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

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

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

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

I'm as famous as I want to be.

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

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.

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 just want to do good work.

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

I've always been a misfit.

There's nothing I won't attempt.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

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

Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?

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.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

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

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!

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

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

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

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

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.