Jane Asher Quotes

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.

Acting has been very useful to me.

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.

I swim more or less every day.

I adore food and always have.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.