Ray Winstone

I'm dying to play a nice guy! No one's willing to cast me. They know I'm all right at bashing people up,…

— Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job…

— Ray Winstone

But then when you go through the process of making the film and you sit in the cinema two years later and…

— Ray Winstone

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to…

— Ray Winstone

For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford…

— Ray Winstone

I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do,…

— Ray Winstone

I remember years ago I was an extra, just an extra, and instead of asking me to move - he was a…

— Ray Winstone

In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You…

— Ray Winstone

We sometimes get lost in a bubble... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and…

— Ray Winstone

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

— Ray Winstone

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm…

— Ray Winstone

Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making…

— Ray Winstone

Every job I take, within minutes Im thinking, I cant do this. I think its what makes me work. People think I…

— Ray Winstone

I'm quite happy with the body of work that I've done, and I've done some really good work over the years that…

— Ray Winstone

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they…

— Ray Winstone

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

— Ray Winstone

I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit…

— Ray Winstone

If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts,…

— Ray Winstone

Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if…

— Ray Winstone

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been.…

— Ray Winstone

By being with my kids. I'm like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think…

— Ray Winstone

As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes…

— Ray Winstone

'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it…

— Ray Winstone

The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to…

— Ray Winstone

I know I've got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from…

— Ray Winstone