Jane Asher

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it read more

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.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be read more

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.

Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think read more

Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You read more

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.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside read more

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.