A biography for Tracey Ullmanhasn’t been written yet.
“I hate clowns.”
“I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.”
“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'm sick of environmentalism.”
“I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.”
“Every character I do is based on someone I know.”
“I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.”
“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.”