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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
Beautiful
Me
Parents
Looking
Few
Through
Name
Mate
Came
Dictionary
Rhyming
Which
China
Pages
Cockney
Slang
Nearly
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
Me
Think
Say
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Never
Accent
Doing
Want
Irritated
Cockney
Play
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
Me
Think
Fine
About
Could
Stick
Said
Lots
Who
Cockney
Actor
Posh
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
Luke Treadaway
Great
Thug
Colours
Roles
Different
Cockney
Play
Rainbow
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine
Intelligence
Every
Bourgeois
Dollars
Cockney
Million
Million Dollars
Nightmare
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
Michael Caine
America
England
Cockney
Actor
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
People
Become
Other
Say
People Say
Could
Know
Accent
Boy
Any
Wanted
Working-Class
Cockney
Actor
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
Michael Caine
You
Speak
Slow
Speed
About
Main
Very
American
Cockney
Twice
Things
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
Beatles
People
Heroes
More
Driving
Like
Comfortable
Felt
Always
Were
Up
Michael
Michael Caine
Grew
Them
Working-Class
Cockney