A biography for Jean Marshhasn’t been written yet.
“I just go where my instincts take me and my ideas just took me to film and television. Which is interesting, because I don't particularly like working in them as an actress.”
“Nobody can replace Angela Baddeley and Gordon Jackson, who immortalised Mrs Bridges and Hudson.”
“If you are going to cover yourself for warmth and decency, you might as well cover yourself interestingly or well.”
“Everyone is hooked on class distinction, whichever side of the tracks they come from. They may not admit it, but it's true.”
“My favorite thing is playing the classics, and I am going to do some huge Shakespeare roles.”
“I am fascinated by prime factors. They are poetic.”
“For 10, 20 years, whenever anybody, a sound editor, won an award, he always thanked Walter Murch. And I'm sure Bob Altman was influenced by him with all his layers of sound.”
“It feels fantastic, I never thought I would get anything, I've won awards and things but I never thought I would get an OBE - it's extraordinary.”
“I have had partners who I have thought about marrying and who have thought about marrying me. The problem was that we never thought it at the same time.”
“My mother had been a housemaid in a big pub hotel.”
“I really don't like parties. I circle the room with a glass of water disguised as a gin and tonic - so that people don't keep insisting I have a 'proper drink' - and then I leave.”
“I had done 'Upstairs, Downstairs' partly so I could play Rose.”
“Life was romantic in the swinging '60s.”
“I think people feel everything was better in the past.”
“I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People are always surprised because I know so much about the Santa Fe Trail, or Lewis and Clark.”
“I prefer to act. I don't like writing.”
“I have friends who live in sweet places in Islington but I have a morbid fear of going back, even though they are very fashionable now. The places we lived in were crumbly. They carry a pall for me.”
“I think 'Upstairs Downstairs' has a very special energy. There's something about it that certainly brings out the best in people.”
“When I was small, my face was like a little triangle. My hair was a pale copper color. I had thick brows, over eyes the color of frozen peas. I was odd-looking, but I knew I would be all right when I was older.”
“Lust comes and goes, even in your twenties and thirties.”