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

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

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

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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