Jane Asher
Jane Asher
Jane Asheris an English actress, author and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 April 1946
cake perfect proud
I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.
cake order people
We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.
jobs thinking actors
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.
acting has-beens
Acting has been very useful to me.
mum cookery
I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.
actresses used knows
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.
mother differences generations
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.
trying classic
I try to be classic without being mumsy.
running fun home
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.
home names way
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.
struggle writing thinking
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.
religious people upset
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.
people secret happy-marriage
People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.
children husband determined
I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.