Zitat des Tages von Tracey Ullman:
I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.
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.
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.
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 loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
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.
It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
Every character I do is based on someone I know.
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
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 think serial monogamy says it all.
I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
I hate clowns.
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.
I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.
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.
It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
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've always been a misfit.
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
I'm as famous as I want to be.
I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
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 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 makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.
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.
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'm sick of environmentalism.
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.
I like infomercials.
I'm not a film snob.
I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.