Quotes About Cockney

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

I didn't know much about the East End and I didn't go trudging round to research it - couldn't be bothered with all that - but my grandmother was a cockney so I used her voice for Dot. I don't think it sounded very real at the beginning.

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

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

The subject chosen ought to be in good health: for it is absolutely barbarous to murder a sick person, who is usually quite unable to bear it. On this principle, no Cockney ought to be chosen who is above twenty-five, for after that age he is sure to be dyspeptic.

Treacle? What does it mean?' Roscoe grinned. 'Cockney rhyming slang. Treacle as in treacle tart as in sweetheart.

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 he's playing.

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

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.

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