My favorite thing is playing the classics, and I am going to do some huge Shakespeare roles. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
If English television is made for the American market, it's not very honest and doesn't do well. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I left school at 12 for a theatre school where the focus was on dance. I had to educate myself. — Jean Marsh Dance Copy Share Image
I've got all the discipline as an actress, but none whatsoever as a writer. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I have friends who live in sweet places in Islington but I have a morbid fear of going back, even though they… — Jean Marsh Fear Copy Share Image
I really don't like parties. I circle the room with a glass of water disguised as a gin and tonic - so… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I suppose I do have a kind of quiet energy and I'm enchanted by people. I look at them and think: 'Oh,… — Jean Marsh Enchanted Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well, I very rarely watch classical adaptations, because they usually do very good books, and a lot of the things they do...… — Jean Marsh Books Copy Share Image
I have had partners who I have thought about marrying and who have thought about marrying me. The problem was that we… — Jean Marsh Marriage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For years I hated my looks. I kept pictures of myself hidden, but I never destroyed them. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I don't have ladylike clothes, because I live in the country in England. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
Nobody can replace Angela Baddeley and Gordon Jackson, who immortalised Mrs Bridges and Hudson. — Jean Marsh Bridges Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely insane about the countryside, about walking in the hills. — Jean Marsh Countryside Copy Share Image
If you are going to cover yourself for warmth and decency, you might as well cover yourself interestingly or well. — Jean Marsh Decency Copy Share Image
There's something about the British that we go for someone who seems nice and has good manners and seems at ease thanks… — Jean Marsh British Copy Share Image
I think 'Upstairs Downstairs' has a very special energy. There's something about it that certainly brings out the best in people. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
In America, I worked for an artist who drew people in clothes, mainly for Bloomingdale's. I did it part-time when I wasn't… — Jean Marsh America Copy Share Image
Straight on, my face is quite symmetrical, but despite all that people seem to think I've got a gloomy appearance. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
For 10, 20 years, whenever anybody, a sound editor, won an award, he always thanked Walter Murch. And I'm sure Bob Altman… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you do a television series like 'Upstairs, Downstairs' - it took five years - you want to go back to the… — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
What makes French and Italian films wonderful is they make them for themselves; they are not made with us in mind at… — Jean Marsh Cinema Copy Share Image
