Cockney Accent Quotes

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

You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!

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 a Londoner, so I'm a bit feisty.

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.

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

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 London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

'My Fair Lady' will never get old for me.