I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there’s ever been. He’s quite an incredible actor. Ray Winstone Read Quote
Well, you create your own persona, don’t you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don’t think that I’m a lunatic. And if they do, then that’s OK, because it means that I’m playing the parts all right. Ray Winstone Read Quote
Hollywood don’t always pay a lot of money. Because we’re English they think we’re cheap! Ray Winstone Read Quote
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. ‘Alas, poor Yorick,’ that’s about death. And in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death. Ray Winstone Read Quote
I know I’ve got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don’t see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals? Ray Winstone Read Quote
Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of ‘Scum.’ All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock. Ray Winstone Read Quote
The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. ‘Cos everyone thinks they’re a goodie, don’t they? Ray Winstone Read Quote
In terms of directors, great actors make directors – Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special. Ray Winstone Read Quote
I’ve never met a politician I haven’t wanted to walk away from, and I’ve yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth. Ray Winstone Read Quote
