Jean Marsh

I read a lot.

— Jean Marsh

I write all the time.

— Jean Marsh

My mother had been a housemaid in a big pub hotel.

— Jean Marsh

I am respected as an actress.

— Jean Marsh

English parents don't spoil their children.

— Jean Marsh

I like working in the theatre.

— Jean Marsh

Life was romantic in the swinging '60s.

— Jean Marsh

The world's full of possibilities.

— Jean Marsh

People do recognize me now and then.

— Jean Marsh

I am fascinated by prime factors. They are poetic.

— Jean Marsh

I came from a really proper working-class English background.

— Jean Marsh

My parents had very little education - it was very hard.

— Jean Marsh

I've got all the discipline as an actress, but none whatsoever as a writer.

— Jean Marsh

I left school at 12 for a theatre school where the focus was on dance. I had to educate myself.

— Jean Marsh

Britain's obsession with class has always been there.

— Jean Marsh

My favorite thing is playing the classics, and I am going to do some huge Shakespeare roles.

— Jean Marsh

I think people who dress badly are very interesting.

— Jean Marsh

If English television is made for the American market, it's not very honest and doesn't do well.

— Jean Marsh

Everyone is hooked on class distinction, whichever side of the tracks they come from. They may not admit it, but it's true.

— Jean Marsh

I have had partners who I have thought about marrying and who have thought about marrying me. The problem was that we…

— Jean Marsh

Because of my facial bone structure I've played a lot of refined, young ladies, but I can resort to cockney at the…

— Jean Marsh

Well, I very rarely watch classical adaptations, because they usually do very good books, and a lot of the things they do...…

— Jean Marsh

Why would an actress retire? We don't have to because, when we are older, we can play older parts. Even if you…

— Jean Marsh

What makes French and Italian films wonderful is they make them for themselves; they are not made with us in mind at…

— Jean Marsh

When you do a television series like 'Upstairs, Downstairs' - it took five years - you want to go back to the…

— Jean Marsh

I can still go on buses although I often hear people saying, 'No, it can't be her, she doesn't need the bus.'

— Jean Marsh

When I was small, my face was like a little triangle. My hair was a pale copper color. I had thick brows,…

— Jean Marsh

My father always said to me, 'You must learn to cook,' and I said: 'I don't have to. I'm going to marry…

— Jean Marsh

Even Dickens, who did write about servants, made them almost cartoonish, so we concentrated on them, and we had various scenarios, synopses,…

— Jean Marsh

I've had such a nice life that I just felt that I wanted to share it with somebody. I think about it…

— Jean Marsh

I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People…

— Jean Marsh

I have been approached by strangers. I was sitting on a beach in America and a young chap came up and said,…

— Jean Marsh

We'd been watching something full of rich people, rich food, beautiful clothes and we had chips on our shoulders, I suppose. And…

— Jean Marsh

I don't want to do Lady Macbeth or Joan of Arc.

— Jean Marsh

My parents were both cockneys.

— Jean Marsh

I do like men very much indeed.

— Jean Marsh

I prefer to act. I don't like writing.

— Jean Marsh

I was married very young, but it didn't work out.

— Jean Marsh

My left profile is pretty and my right comical.

— Jean Marsh

I trained myself not to want things, because I thought I'd always be poor.

— Jean Marsh