A biography for June Brownhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't want to be a burden to anyone.”
“I used to take the children to work with me.”
“I was always in love, constantly.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am very bossy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The elderly in Britain aren't really given enough respect.”
“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.”
“I've always been afraid of being poor when I'm old.”
“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.”
“If your sight is poor, there's very little you can do.”
“I would not want to be unable to talk. Imagine not being able to talk when you're a talkative person.”
“I'm a perfectionist - but as someone once said, 'What else is there to be?'”
“My handwriting was so good I won a prize, a cardboard cut-out of a farmyard; my mother threw it away when we moved.”