Ray Winstone Owes To Acting Career  Ray Winstone |
British actor Ray Winstone is relieved his career as an actor took off - because he would have had to resort to a life of crime to feed his family.
The hardman actor made his mark on the British film industry when he starred in 1979 cult classic ‘Scum’, depicting the life of an incarcerated juvenile delinquent.
And the star insists his life could have mirrored the film - because he didn't have any other talents to fall back on.
He tells British magazine, "I wasn't good enough to be a footballer or a pop star. And I couldn't have been a career criminal because I'd have probably got caught!
"To be honest, I'd probably be f**ked. I'd find it very difficult to do physical, manual labour now. I was putting out market stalls with my dad when I was 12 and that was fine, but I haven't done that since. I'm 52 now, I've got three kids and a wife, so I'd have to do something. It looks like I'd be getting the old balaclava out!"
