Tracey Ullman

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

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

“I hate clowns.”

“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 M...”

“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.”

“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...”

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

“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'm sick of environmentalism.”

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

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

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

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

“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 think serial monogamy says it all.”

“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.”

“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.”