Jane Asher Quotes
Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
-
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
-
When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
-
I spend my own money, not other people's money.
-
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
-
Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
-
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
-
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
-
My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
-
I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
-
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
-
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
-
It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
-
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
-
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
-
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
-
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
-
I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
-
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
-
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
-
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
-
Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
-
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
-
Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.
