Best 33 quotes of Tracey Ullman on MyQuotes

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

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

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.

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

I'm sick of environmentalism.

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.

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

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

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 think serial monogamy says it all.

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

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

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

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

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.