Quotes by Tracey Ullman

• I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
• As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
• 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.
• Every character I do is based on someone I know.
• 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 hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.
• I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.
• I like infomercials.
• I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
• I think serial monogamy says it all.
• 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 wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
• 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 love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
• Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.
• Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
• I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.
• Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
• 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.
• My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
• 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.
• It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
• It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
• It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
• It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
• 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'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 as famous as I want to be.
• I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.