“I was always given the comedy role, even in the ballet. I was the one ...” — June Whitfield Quote

“I was always given the comedy role, even in the ballet. I was the one who fell off her points, you know? I love doing comedy, and I love being in things that make people laugh.”

“My only claim to music is a good sense of rhythm, and I have been in musicals and done some singing.”

“The BBC say we need more working-class comedies, which is rubbish. We need funny comedies; it doesn't matter where they come from.”

“I did think of becoming a ballet dancer at one point. I had a girlfriend who was teaching in the ballet school. I was 16, 17, very fit, but it was too much like hard work.”

“It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.”

“I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.”