June Brown Quotes

June Brown

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 16, 1927

All the women in 'Coronation Street' and 'Brookside,' they are all so funny. A lot of women bore me, but I love the strong women in soaps.

June Brown

Many gays have a good sense of humour and they like the wit I hopefully put into my performances.

June Brown

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

June Brown

I was always in love, constantly.

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

I'm a perfectionist - but as someone once said, 'What else is there to be?'

June Brown

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

June Brown

I find when I get on set that my energy comes.

June Brown

I like silence.

June Brown

I don't believe anything is going to happen until it does, until you see your name on a paper or it actually happens and you have something in your hand.

June Brown

The elderly in Britain aren't really given enough respect.

June Brown

I've had tragedy in my life, but I think that gives me a depth that I can bring to my work. I'd like to see more older women on TV because they can bring that life experience and emotion to a performance.

June Brown

I'm absolutely pedantic about language; it must go back to my schools.

June Brown

In 1930, when I was three and my sister was four, my father sent us to Miss Tracy's, a little 'dame's school' in Ipswich. I do remember playing with an abacus. He took us away after a term because he thought we weren't learning anything.

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 moved.

June Brown

I was a procrastinator and a bookworm but I passed all my School Certificate exams, the equivalent of O-levels; I got three distinctions, three honours and three good passes.

June Brown

I was having the worst year of my life before the offer from 'EastEnders' came through. I was 58, my kids were grown up, and I had no money and few offers.

June Brown

My thirties were ruined by being pregnant. I loved my babies but I had been quite successful before I had them, playing Lady Macbeth and Hedda Gabler, one of my favourite roles.

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 children. And now people give their children choices, like what they want to eat. Kids can't deal with choices.

June Brown

I am very bossy.

June Brown