TRACEY ULLMAN

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

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 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.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

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.

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 never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

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!

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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.

I'm not a film snob.

There's nothing I won't attempt.

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.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

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've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

I hate clowns.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.