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Acting has been very useful to me.
-- Jane Asher

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think one wants lots of different lives.
-- Jane Asher

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

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

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

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.
-- 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

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