Jane Asher Quotes

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• Acting has been very useful to me.
• 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…
• 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…
• My parents were not theatrical at all.
• 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,…
• I think one wants lots of different lives.
• 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…
• 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…
• I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward
• We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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 learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.
• I swim more or less every day.
• I try to be classic without being mumsy.

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