A biography for Vinnie Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.”
“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.”
“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'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 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.”
“I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.”
“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!”
“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.”
“אני קונה כובעים כמו שנשים קונות נעליים. יש לי הרבה יותר מ־150.”
“לאמריקאים לא אכפת מה השפה שלך, הגזע שלך, מה שלא יהיה. כל אחד שם כדי לעשות את שלו ולהצליח. הלוואי שאנשים בבריטניה יהיו חיוביים יותר.”
“ג'ון ויין מעולם לא איכזב את מעריציו, כי הוא היה בוקר.”
“My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.”
“I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.”
“For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.”
“We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.”
“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'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.”
“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.”
“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.”