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I thought, is this what it's all about? Do you have to be blonde and girly and have freckles and a snub-nose and sort of act the coquette in show business? WELL YES! (Tracey Ullman)
What I fear most is that you will know where the laughs are going to come, or that you will know a character so well that you know when they're going to sing a song. In some shows, you just know that the audience is sitting there going "Oh no, she's going to sing." View quote
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Hollywood to me, I never get the real glamour and romance. I look at an old picture of Veronica Lake, you know, looking glamorous, and I just look at her and think, "Maybe she had her period that day." View quote
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My face is a good one for doing impersonations. I've got small eyes, a low brow and a big head ... When I worked at the BBC in the 80s the only wigs that would fit me were Mike Yardwood's. View quote
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From an early age. 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. My father died when I was 6 and we were really sad, so I put on a show for my mum. [In a mocking American accent] Looking back now, it was a kind of therapy. View quote
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Every character I do is based on someone I know. I try to justify every sketch we do. If it's not working, we find someone to talk to who it has happened to. View quote
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I'd stand in front of the mirror and talk to myself until I fell asleep, you know. I'd interview myself as women with problems, you know, like, women in documentaries who had three kids and chainsmoked and husbands in prison that hit them! I'd be in the mirror going, [lowers voice] yeah well, you know, it's not easy since Derrin went into prison. My eyes aren't black anymore, but the twins, Tilly and Wayne, you know, they don't stop crying. SHUT UP TILLY SHUT UP TILLY! View quote
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I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference. View quote
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My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. (Tracey Ullman)
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political. View quote
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It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them. View quote
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It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person. View quote
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I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every character I do is based on someone I know. View quote
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I like going to France, because no one knows who I am. (Tracey Ullman)
I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. View quote
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