Cockney Quotes
An accent, softened but not lost
These cockney quotes trace an accent's journey, from thick East London Dialects to the softened tones actors adopt for drama school.
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
Able Quotes
The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.
I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming...
Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what...
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
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One actor recalls losing the last traces of Cockney speech Before arriving at Cambridge, trading it for a more neutral voice.
