Quotes from Vinnie Jones


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Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.


Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.


I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.


For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.


I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.


I've always felt that people put me down, and I'd fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do.


John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.


To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.


We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.


When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.


There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.


I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.


I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.


I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.


Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.


Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.


I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!


In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.


I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.


My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.