Tracey Ullman quotes

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.

After spending two months in France where the air is great, I genuinely noticed how ill I felt returning to Los Angeles. The way we're going, if they keep building and building, there will be no space any more.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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.

Chic is the character my family least likes to see me as. It is the most uncomfortable make-up. The beard is vile. It's made of yak hair and itches horribly.

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

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

Every piece is so different. Some start out as just characters, but turn into something completely the opposite. There's a workshop feel about the show.

Frenchy, my character, comes from a very poor family and it's exciting for her to suddenly have money. This is a movie about the working class people and not about the New York intelligentsia with all the complexity of a typical Woody Allen movie.

How I perceive actors getting involved in politics and charities... they want even more attention for themselves, it's in their nature.

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.

I don't think I'm mature enough.

I had no experience with kids. I had no small brothers or sisters. I had to learn what to do with them. I had no idea when they walked, when they talked, when they got teeth.

I had no idea I'd be doing this because of my embarrassment with saying I'm an actress. I don't like actors, especially in this town, where everyone just wants to be looked at.

I hate clowns.