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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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Vinnie Jones
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 5
Actor
Association Football Player
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Vincent Peter Jones
Vincent Peter Vinnie Jones
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Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
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The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
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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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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 was captain of Wales I've been captain of numerous football clubs.
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For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.
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Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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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'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.
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After 'Big Brother,' people came up to me in the street shouting, 'You woz robbed!'
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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'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.
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