Vinnie Jones quotes

Vinnie Jones is an English actor and former professional footballer, widely recognized for his tough playing style. His football career included notable stints with Wimbledon, Leeds United, and Chelsea. He later became famous as an actor, starring in films such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch." Here are 27 of his quotes:

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

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

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I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

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Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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!

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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.

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

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

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My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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