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All Quotes by author - Jane Asher

" Acting has been very useful to me. "

" An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator. "

" As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head. "

" Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. "

" I adore food and always have. "

" I do enjoy fashion - a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone. "

" I do find modern jazz quite tricky. "

" I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on. "

" I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it. "

" I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself. "

" I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time. "

" I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work. "

" I swim more or less every day. "

" I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. "

" I think one wants lots of different lives. "

" It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable. "

" I try to be classic without being mumsy. "

" Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. "

" My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous. "

" My parents were not theatrical at all. "

" Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody. "

" Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily. "

" The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before. "

" There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things. "

" The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things. "

" We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes. "

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