Jane Asher Quotes

• 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.

  Jane Asher

  Religious, People, Upset

  "Jane Asher: this much I know". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I try to be classic without being mumsy.

  Jane Asher

  Trying, Classic

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• I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

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  Ideas, Looks, Looking Back

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• 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.

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  Actresses, Used, Know How

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• 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.

  Jane Asher

  Home, Names, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think one wants lots of different lives.

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  Thinking, Different, Want

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• 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.

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  Running, Fun, Home

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• 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.

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  Orange, Looks, Shade

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• I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.

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  Mom, Cake, Taught

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• 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.

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  School, Knowing, Long

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• I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

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  Cake, Perfect, Proud

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• 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.

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  Listening, World, Brahms

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• I swim more or less every day.

  Jane Asher

  Swim

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Writing, Thinking

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• People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.

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  People, Secret, Happy Marriage

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

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  Order, Cake, People

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• 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.

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  Play, Done, Rehearsal

  "Jane Asher: this much I know". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Children, Reality, Doubt

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Actors

  "Portrait of the artist: Jane Asher, actor". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

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  Mother, Differences, Generations

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• I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

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  Mum, Cookery

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• I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

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  Children, Husband, Determined

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• I adore food and always have.

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  Adore

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• Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

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  Block, Cake, Oil

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

  Jane Asher

  Fashion, Clothes, Trends

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