Top 89 Ullman Quotes
#1. I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
Lennon Parham
#2. There are never fewer than eight Tracey Ullman characters in any NYC nail salon at any given time.
Tina Fey
#3. No returning smile from Ullman. He slipped Jack's application back into a file. The file went into a drawer. The desk top was now completely bare except for a blotter, a telephone, a Tensor lamp, and an in/out basket. Both sides of the in/out were empty, too.
Stephen King
#4. He killed them, Mr. Torrance, and then committed suicide. He murdered the little girls with a hatchet, his wife with a shotgun, and himself the same way. His leg was broken. Undoubtedly so drunk he fell downstairs. Ullman spread his hands and looked at Jack self-righteously.
Stephen King
#5. Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullman's cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter.
Stephen King
#6. I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.
Matt Groening
#7. Tracy Ullman, I grew up watching her shows and standup and improv and specials. Bette Midler and Whoopi Goldberg. They inspire me to do it all. I always wanted to do it all; I never wanted to be put in a box.
Bresha Webb
#8. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#9. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#10. I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.
Ellen Ullman
#11. Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
Tracey Ullman
#12. The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.
Tracey Ullman
#13. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#14. My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
Tracey Ullman
#17. 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!
Tracey Ullman
#18. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Samuel Ullman
#21. It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
James Ramsey Ullman
#22. As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.
Tracey Ullman
#24. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Samuel Ullman
#25. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#27. I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.
Tracey Ullman
#28. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#29. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#30. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#31. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#32. After a while, the letter became soft and moist. When I glanced up I could see, although
initially indistinctly, soft downy blonde hair with a large, gold, buckle intermingled there. This was
seeing with all my senses.
Thomas Ullman
#33. It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
Tracey Ullman
#34. It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
Tracey Ullman
#35. My demon is you. My best and worst is about you: how I need you and fear for you, how I fear for myself if I lose you, how I have let myself be defined by you.
Danielle Younge-Ullman
#36. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#37. But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
Ellen Ullman
#38. I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
Tracey Ullman
#39. Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
Ellen Ullman
#41. My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
Tracey Ullman
#42. Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'
Tracey Ullman
#43. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#44. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#45. I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
Tracey Ullman
#46. Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
Tracey Ullman
#47. I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.
Tracey Ullman
#48. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Samuel Ullman
#49. I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
Tracey Ullman
#50. Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.
Tracey Ullman
#51. Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.
Peggy Ullman Bell
#52. To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
Ellen Ullman
#53. I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.
Tracey Ullman
#54. Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman
#56. There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.
Tracey Ullman
#57. Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.
James Ramsey Ullman
#58. Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?
Ellen Ullman
#59. It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
Tracey Ullman
#61. We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
James Ramsey Ullman
#62. I started with her feet. I knelt and kissed them; each toe was soft and strong.
Thomas Ullman
#63. To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.
James Ramsey Ullman
#65. I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.
Tracey Ullman
#66. I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
Tracey Ullman
#67. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#68. I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
Tracey Ullman
#69. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?
Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.
Ellen Ullman
#70. Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.
Samuel Ullman
#71. Every character I do is based on someone I know.
Tracey Ullman
#72. Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?
Tracey Ullman
#73. If God had intended breasts to be seen, he wouldn't have invented large woolen pullovers.
Tracey Ullman
#74. We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
Ellen Ullman
#76. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#77. 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.
Tracey Ullman
#78. It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
Tracey Ullman
#79. I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.
Tracey Ullman
#80. It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
James Ramsey Ullman
#81. Actions speak louder than words."
Hardly original but judge people by what they do rather than what they say they will do.
Thomas Ullman
#82. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
Samuel Ullman
#84. In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.
Samuel Ullman
#85. Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Samuel Ullman
#86. I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.
Tracey Ullman
#88. Youth is the time for dreams, boy...The trick is, when you get older, not to forget them.
- Captain John Winters
James Ramsey Ullman
#89. 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.
Tracey Ullman
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