June Brown Quotes

June Brown

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 16, 1927

I don't bother with computers, although I have an electronic reader.

June Brown

I don't want to be a burden to anyone.

June Brown

I could have played Dot as a very dreary woman with a list of illnesses, but I played her with an edge, so it was funny.

June Brown

I can't say my life has been dominated by tragedy. I refuse to accept that. I've had less than some, more than others.

June Brown

I don't want to live to be 100.

June Brown

I want to wear colours that cheer people. Forget all this navy and beige and black.

June Brown

I would be happy if I were Jesus. I'd like to fix everyone else's problems more than my own.

June Brown

Turmeric is good for the brain.

June Brown

I don't like spending money.

June Brown

It is dangerous to have a favourite word.

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I say sorry for everything.

June Brown

Sometimes I wonder if I loved anybody, and yet I think of all the tears I shed and the heartache. It was all such a waste of time.

June Brown

A little girl once wrote to me saying she was coming to live with me - because Dot always stuck up for her son.

June Brown

I didn't know much about the East End and I didn't go trudging round to research it - couldn't be bothered with all that - but my grandmother was a cockney so I used her voice for Dot. I don't think it sounded very real at the beginning.

June Brown

Characters can get under your skin when you play them for a long time.

June Brown

Sometimes I'll feel down and realise it's because of a depressing plot.

June Brown

You've always got to have something to say, haven't you? For an interview. Something to talk about.

June Brown

Don't like makeup. I don't use it much unless I go out - I think it makes you look older.

June Brown

My life is just - logistics - fitting everything in.

June Brown

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

June Brown