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
suits habit stores
I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.
listening world brahms
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.
school knowing long
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.
jazz modern tricky
I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
mom cake taught
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.
silly dressing-up acting
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.
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.
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.