“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.”
“We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.”
“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.”
“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'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'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'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.”
“For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.”
“I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.”
“I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.”