Top 40 Tracey Ullman Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Tracey Ullman

2. “I love documentaries, I like observing real people.”

— Tracey Ullman

3. “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.’”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

5. “I just want to do good work.”

— Tracey Ullman

6. “I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.”

— Tracey Ullman

7. “I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.”

— Tracey Ullman

8. “I’ve always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.”

— Tracey Ullman

9. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

10. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

12. “I’ve always been a misfit.”

— Tracey Ullman

13. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

14. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

15. “As I get older, I just prefer to knit.”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

18. “I think serial monogamy says it all.”

— Tracey Ullman

19. “I’m not a crazy, party-going sort of person.”

— Tracey Ullman

20. “It’s funny – if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it’s them.”

— Tracey Ullman

21. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

22. “It’s the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

24. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

25. “I’m sick of environmentalism.”

— Tracey Ullman

26. “Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it’s a litter.”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

28. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

29. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

31. “It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.”

— Tracey Ullman

32. “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!”

— Tracey Ullman

33. “It’s sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

36. “I’m usually put off by performers when they get political.”

— Tracey Ullman

37. “Every character I do is based on someone I know.”

— Tracey Ullman

38. “There’s nothing I won’t attempt.”

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Tracey Ullman

40. “I’m as famous as I want to be.”

— Tracey Ullman

41. “I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what’s my perception of America.”

— Tracey Ullman

42. “I’m fascinated by Bollywood.”

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43. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman

44. “I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I’ve gotten ridiculous offers.”

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45. “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.”

— Tracey Ullman