Tracey Ullman Quotes

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.

The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife.

The pictures and dresses and official functions - that's my job, but it's not my whole life.

I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

I'm not a private person. I like hanging out and talking to fans. But my life isn't so interesting that you want to see the inside of it.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

There's a lot of people who think that I am happy all the time.

Don't think that you can go to Washington and dress as an individual. If you want to avoid criticism, you need to be a twin-set-sweater-and-pearls type of girl.

Taste is tiring like good company.

Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.