Quotes from 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.

I say sorry for everything.

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.

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.

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

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.

I've played two people simultaneously for 35 years.

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

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.

My life is just - logistics - fitting everything in.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think I can do things better than other people, which is dreadful.

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

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.

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

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