Words matter. These are the best Tracey Ullman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
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.’
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 sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
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.
Every character I do is based on someone I know.
I just want to do good work.
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.
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.
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what’s my perception of America.
I’ve always been a misfit.
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’s nothing I won’t attempt.
I think serial monogamy says it all.
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.
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.
I’m usually put off by performers when they get political.
It’s the poignancy and sadness in things that gets 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!
I hate clowns.
It’s funny – if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it’s them.
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
