Jane Asher quotes Born: 04/05/1946 Country: united_kingdom

• Acting has been very useful to me. (Jane Asher)
• After years of semi-fame, never really being famous but not being obscure, you get used to seeing yourself written about in so many ways. There used to be a bit of truth in everything, but not really truth in any. (Jane Asher) [being/being/truth/truth]
• Famous people shouldn't be obliged to take part in charity. Personally, I feel I can contribute-I can give time and help gain publicity for the causes I'm associated with. (Jane Asher) [people/take/charity/give]
• 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. (Jane Asher) [business/changes/housing/business]
• Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened. (Jane Asher) [lifestyle/books/being/think]
• Holding one position for a long time is always tough, I got very cramped, and under the hot lights the chocolate did melt. It had to be topped up and eventually the smell was awful. For the rest of the evening I could smell the chocolate. But the photograph looked amazingly good and sophisticated! (Jane Asher) [position/time/rest/evening]
• 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. (Jane Asher) [experts/watch/thinking/housing]
• I haven't broken it off, but it is broken off,finished... I know it sounds corny, but we still see each other, and love each other, but it hasn't worked out. Perhaps we'll be childhood sweethearts and meet again, and get married when we're about 70. (Jane Asher) [love/childhood]
• 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. (Jane Asher)
• 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. (Jane Asher) [look/housing/being]
• 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. (Jane Asher) [think]
• I think my showbiz side must have come out, the enjoyment of entertaining, because the cakes got increasingly wild and funny until many years later when a friend suggested I put them all into a book. That became a bestseller and eventually cake-making stopped being a hobby and became a business. (Jane Asher) [think/enjoyment/wild/being]
• I think one wants lots of different lives. (Jane Asher) [think]
• I use email now all the time-I'm a complete convert. I've always been one for leaping into technology because I love it but I wasn't sure about email, I couldn't see the advantage over fax and phone at first, apart from the cost. (Jane Asher) [love/advantage/phone]
• I was never the dolly-bird type. I didn't particularly like going to discotheques and sitting up till 4am in a haze of cigarette smoke. (Jane Asher) [type]
• I'm at the outline stage now of a third novel and I'm trying to keep it brighter. (Jane Asher) [stage/novel]
• 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. (Jane Asher) [thing/being/start]
• The show is really designed to give people new ideas for the home. It's just about sharing some tips for having fun. (Jane Asher) [give/people//housing]
• There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things. (Jane Asher) [thing]
• We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes. (Jane Asher) [people/order]
• We made Prince Charles' birthday cake-we're always very tactful about our VIP clients. It was the cake for the party at Highgrove, so it was a large one. (Jane Asher)
• We make a lot of saucy cakes but I try to ensure that it's tastefully, humourously saucy rather than anything else. (Jane Asher)
• We once created a birthday cake for a lady's party which was a model of her in the form of a naked marble statue. (Jane Asher) [form]
• But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. (Jane Asher)
• Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things. (Jane Asher)
• To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. (Jane Asher)
• You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. (Jane Asher)

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