Quotes About Cockney

#1. We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

Ken Bates

#2. I'd lose that smile if I were you." I jingle the car keys in his face. "Your life is in my hands, lest you forget " My imitation of his cockney accent is actually spot-on, I let myself bask in it,

A.G. Howard

#3. I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

Gemma Arterton

#4. Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.

Chris Pine

#5. 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.

Peter Ackroyd

#6. The sexy magazine in Britain in that time was called Club International. Club International: It was about as international as the International House of Pancakes. It should have been called Naked Cockney Girls with Scurvy.

Craig Ferguson

#7. We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.

Richard Aldington

#8. I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

Daniel Radcliffe

#9. 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.

Eric Bristow

#10. 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.

China Mieville

#11. I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them ... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.

Tracey Ullman

#12. The Cockney accent was almost impenetrable. *Nothing* was "nuffin," and aitches were dropped from and attached to the wrong words, and some of the vowels seemed to have arrived from another planet.

Loretta Chase

#13. It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Eileen Atkins

#14. Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those
Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!
All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see
's been dubbed by [Us] into RP,
Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us]
your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.

Tony Harrison

#15. Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

Christopher Eccleston

#16. The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. So how would you define a Londoner, then?" Lady Penny asked curiously. "Someone who lives here. It's like the old definition of a cockney: someone who's born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a foreigner," he added with a grin, "is anyone, Anglo-Saxon or not, who lives outside.

Edward Rutherfurd

#18. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

John Ruskin

#19. I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Michael Caine

#20. Derek.' There was an odd smile on her face. 'Your cockney is showing.

Lisa Kleypas

#21. In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

Michael Caine

#22. Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit

Sidney Sheldon

#23. Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

Paloma Faith

#24. Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Michael Caine

#26. I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.

Noel Gallagher

#27. I wonder if it would be unethical for me to turn James Marsters? And then force him to fake the Cockney accent? And then make him my love monkey?

Molly Harper

#28. I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

Lennox Lewis

#29. I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Christopher Eccleston

#30. People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.

Michael Caine

#31. I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.

Pauline Quirke

#32. There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.

Keeley Hawes

#33. It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

Luke Treadaway

#34. Life ain't all you want but it's all you got. Stick a flower in your hat and be 'appy.

Anonymous

#35. Writing books about whores ... I'll bet you newer ... joined giblets wiv a man in your lily-white life.'
Dr. Hindley and Worthy began to reprove him, but Sara smiled quizzically. ' "Joined giblets?" ... I've never heard it put that way before.

Lisa Kleypas

#36. Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.

Jennifer Worth