Vinnie Jones Quotes

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

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.

For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.

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

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.

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.

People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't.

To get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish.

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.

I'm always have been in my life a big protector of women. If I see a guy slap a girl I would rip their head off; I'm very like that.

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

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

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

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.

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

Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

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.

I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

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

I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.

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!

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

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

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.

I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.

After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!'

Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.