Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by June Brown

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

June Muriel Brown was an English actress and author. She was best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Soap Awards. Brown was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to drama and to charity, and promoted OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours. In 2009, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, making her the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera, after Jean Alexander. In February 2020 she announced that she had left EastEnders permanently, at the age of 93.

English - Actress | Born: February 16, 1927

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If I'd stayed at home I'd have married as a virgin. But, in the heady post-war years, I fell in love all the time.

June Brown

I wasn't a natural mother.

June Brown

Just pray for your health and strength, hearing and eyesight, and an active mind.

June Brown

I don't want a retainer for 'EastEnders,' I've left. I've left for good.

June Brown

I can't go out socially. I never go to soap awards now. I don't recognize people I know and they would think that I was snubbing them.

June Brown

I think that's why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they're older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards... I think it kills you.

June Brown

I've known great happiness.

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

I'm technology illiterate.

June Brown

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

June Brown

It's a dreadful thing to be strapped for cash when you are elderly. It's awful when you're young, too, but you always have hope.

June Brown

I'm not a star, darling.

June Brown

Acting is a very strange thing. It isn't about trying to feel, for me, it is about thinking.

June Brown

I always felt Dot was one of those characters who should stay the same. She's a simple creature.

June Brown

I can play CDs and I can use an ordinary mobile.

June Brown

I usually have about 16 pills a day of various descriptions - I also have minerals from Salt Lake City and amino acids that get sent to me from Australia.

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 am never going to be made a Dame doing Dot.

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 like the golf and the snooker, too.

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 death of you.

June Brown

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

June Brown

Personally my mind needs occupying. If it isn't, it goes all over the place.

June Brown

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

June Brown

You've got to laugh in the face of disappointment.

June Brown

I never had the money to start a pension - I didn't start to make any real money until I was 58 - and now it's not worth much.

June Brown

I was always taught to say thank you for everything, good or bad.

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 rather miserable.

June Brown

I get lots of letters, and I reply to them all personally.

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've got extra lenses inside my eyes to try to help me read better. They help with peripheral vision, but I've got no central vision.

June Brown

I love my children but it was a lot of work.

June Brown

I do pray about my sight - maybe it will return.

June Brown

In fact I became so punctual I used to be in an hour before I should be.

June Brown

If your sight is poor, there's very little you can do.

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 to die here.

June Brown

I've always been afraid of being poor when I'm old.

June Brown

I can't afford to retire.

June Brown

My sister happened to look at The Times, and there was advertised the Old Vic theatre school. I wrote, I suppose, and got an audition. They said I was in, so I burst into tears, because in those days I cried when I was happy and I cried when I was sad.

June Brown

An actor needs his voice.

June Brown

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

June Brown

I don't want to live to be 100.

June Brown

I trust that I will die well.

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

June Brown

As long as I am capable of working, and can learn lines and move around, I will carry on. I'd be utterly bored if I stopped.

June Brown

I've played two people simultaneously for 35 years.

June Brown

I've had two pensions each that have gone down by 50%.

June Brown

The Old Vic is special to me because that's where I began. I lived in New Bond Street in London in a flat that cost 4.20 a week. I split the rent with friends. We used to go to concerts, theatres, we went to the Proms.

June Brown

I never touch fast food.

June Brown

I wish it were September 1948 and I wish I were 21 again.

June Brown

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

June Brown

I miss Bob, but I don't want another marriage.

June Brown

I can see where everything is around the house but nothing's clear.

June Brown

When I was 17-and-a-half I volunteered for the Wrens. I auditioned for a play and we took it round the Southern Command area and I really enjoyed it. I got laughs and that was when the bug got me.

June Brown

My life is just - logistics - fitting everything in.

June Brown

I watch 'News At Ten' and 'Loose Women' and that gives me all I need to know.

June Brown

I got a grant for the Old Vic Theatre School in London, which had just started. It was only five terms; they used to break you down and never quite put you together again but it was an excellent training.

June Brown

I've got very poor sight.

June Brown

I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to go into the medical professional. Acting was not important enough. That was a hobby - nothing to do with what you did in life.

June Brown

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