Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.
I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.
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.
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
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.
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.
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?
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.
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
There is a huge fan base, they're very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished - before I started working on the series I didn't know anything about Game of Thrones. I hadn't heard of the books. When it started going out, people were coming up to me in the street saying [fake cockney accent] "oh, Game of Thrones, f------ wonderful.
