Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullmanis a multiple award-winning television, stage, and film actress who performs as a comedian, singer and dancer, and also works as a director, producer, screenwriter, author, and businesswoman. Ullman holds dual British and American citizenship...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth30 December 1959
CitySlough, England
derogatory suggested tower
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.
cry girls nasty sat toilets
I was the nasty one that sat in the toilets and smoked-and made the other girls cry
british-comedian invited
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.
accepted actress becoming class england examples girls pretended somebody unless
There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.
cockney felt grew michael people
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.
against orange seem sitcoms
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.
classes crippled desperate england english move scots
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.
breasts created god intended large
If God had intended for breasts to be seen, He wouldn't have created large woolen pullovers
becoming love odd
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.
dad growing-up kids
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.'
girl home vegetables
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.
character actors influence
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
girl needs timeless
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!
bollywood fascinated
I'm fascinated by Bollywood.