June Brown

I would not like to go into a care home. That's my worst fear. I like my own home and would like…

— June Brown

When you're acting you are in love with someone, it's very hard not to think you are.

— June Brown

I'm not bragging but I used to be rather beautiful, with lovely legs, and people would always ask me to dance. But…

— June Brown

I can talk through anything. I even talked while I was having my tonsils removed in Ardentinny when I was in the…

— June Brown

No, I wouldn't vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative.

— June Brown

I've never entertained the idea of retiring because I've never regarded myself as having a proper job. Anyway, retirement can be the…

— June Brown

I can't afford to retire.

— June Brown

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

— June Brown

My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we…

— June Brown

It's much easier for me to cry and do all those things on the stage than in real life.

— June Brown

At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for…

— June Brown

I would not want to be unable to talk. Imagine not being able to talk when you're a talkative person.

— June Brown

Old people are considered worthless fuddy-duddies and often overlooked, which makes them sink into loneliness. I noticed it as soon as I…

— June Brown

I am never going to be made a Dame doing Dot.

— June Brown

I was having the worst year of my life before the offer from 'EastEnders' came through. I was 58, my kids were…

— June Brown

I've played two people simultaneously for 35 years.

— June Brown

My views are politically incorrect. Such as why we allow children to say what they think. It's not how to bring up…

— June Brown

There are some people who the same things happen to them again and again. They never learn.

— June Brown

I was quite a clever child, I don't know what happened later on.

— June Brown

My sister happened to look at The Times, and there was advertised the Old Vic theatre school. I wrote, I suppose, and…

— June Brown

I think when you are older, you should be slowing down, but I wouldn't like not to work as I would get…

— June Brown

I'm not a star, darling.

— June Brown

I wasn't a natural mother.

— June Brown

I was taught at my drama school that it's not what you feel, it's what you make the audience feel.

— June Brown

I never had the money to start a pension - I didn't start to make any real money until I was 58…

— June Brown