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
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.
books bring british-actress lifestyle suppose
Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.
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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.
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I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.