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As I get older, I just prefer to knit. (Tracey Ullman)
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. View quote
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Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? View quote
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I'm as famous as I want to be. View quote
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I think serial monogamy says it all. View quote
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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. View quote
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Oh, yeah, she's that snippy little Brit girl who takes all the parts so no one else gets a crack at it. View quote
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People think I'm a demented little pixie, but I'm not 'on' all the time. I'm sensible. I pay my bills. I've never done drugs. I don't drink or smoke. I eat organic. I'm a goody-goody, really, but I can play bad girls. View quote
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It's very therapeutic, what I do. Other people get this anonymity and thrill from being in an Internet chat room, where they can be anybody they want to be. That's the feeling I get, but to an even greater extent. I physically take on these characteristics. Afterwards, I feel I'm a parrot. I need a black bag put over my head until I become myself again. View quote
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I left school at 16 and went to Berlin and danced [...] West Berlin, 1976. It was amazing. I wish they hadn't taken the wall down. Now it's full of east Germans wearing Versace shirts. View quote
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My mum went and married a really horrible horrible man, who drove a taxi at night and had a sticky-fingered son and he smoked cigars in the toilet. Smelled terrible! Again, there's no therapy, there's no counseling over the whole situation! Just married the maniac. And there was a new person in her bed now, and I couldn't do my nightly performance anymore. I was nine years old and my show had been canceled! (Tracey Ullman)
They hold onto a small child who's hungry, then go back to their homes and feel good about themselves. That's how I perceive actors getting involved in politics and charities. They want even more attention for themselves, it's in their nature. View quote
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Everybody's [in Berlin] gay! View quote
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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! View quote
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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. View quote
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The BBC said the only thing they didn't like about the show was those weird little animated characters and suggested maybe they could get rid of them because they would never catch on. View quote
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In 1976 I was sweet 16. Well, I was never sweet, but I was 16. View quote
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You see, most people with multiple personalities get therapy. I get my own HBO comedy series! View quote
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I based my career from the very beginning on people like Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Margaret Rutherford. I keep thinking Maggie and Judi are going to eventually not want those parts and I'm going to move up and take them (laughter). So, hopefully, I'll be working in my 70s and 80s. You know, character actresses. I never had looks to lose. I could keep going-Meryl Streep and me. View quote
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I thought I'd end up in a Swiss sanitarium. It was brutally hard work. I could barely see my family. View quote
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Dignity, girls! Ageing with dignity – that's the thing. (Tracey Ullman)
Working with the same people week after week brings out inspiration. You have to have an open discussion or you end up with actors saying fuck you to the writers and writers saying fuck you to the actors. View quote
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Some kids can play the piano or kick a football; I could just impersonate everyone. View quote
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Every seven years or so I look around me and I want to look at the society and I want to try and be everyone I'm seeing in the world right now. [...] And I've done this all my life. I realized I used to do this in my mother's bedroom when I was 6. I used to be everyone in my village and everyone at school and everyone in the news, and I'm still doing that same show. I'm now 56. I think I can do it in my 80s. I'll just, you know, impersonate everyone around me then in the nursing home. View quote
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I have the sh*ttest birthday-the 30th of December! Can you imagine what that was like when I was a kid in England? It was the day before New Year's Eve. It was horrific! My sister's birthday is on the fourth of July. It was all about strawberries and dancing in the garden in summer dresses. Mine was like, "Don't talk about it. It's her birthday.” It was pitch-dark (laughter). Every one wrapped presents for me that they didn't want from Christmas. It was a terrible time to have a birthday (laughter)! View quote
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