Words matter. These are the best Vinnie Jones Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After ‘Big Brother,’ people came up to me in the street shouting, ‘You woz robbed!’
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.
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.
John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.
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.
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they’re going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.
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.
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.
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’ve always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.
I’d like to be the romantic lead one day, but I’ve got to grow my hair first.
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!
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 buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.
Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.
I’ve got the FA Cup tattooed on my leg and the Leeds United emblem, too. On my back, I’ve got, ‘It’s been emotional,’ which is my line from ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.’ I’m fond of my tattoos, and I’m still having more.
There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King’s Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.
To me, England is past its sell-by date. It’s not the country I grew up in.
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 was offered ‘I’m A Celebrity…’ for a lot of money, but I don’t like the level of degradation.
