James Purefoy Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by James Purefoy:
I have no problem with television as a genre.
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Ancient Rome was a violent place.
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Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
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Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
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I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.
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When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
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I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
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I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
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Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
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Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
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If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
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One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
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I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.
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I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
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British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
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I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
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One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
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When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
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You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
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If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
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I have to travel a lot for work.
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Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
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There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
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I was very unmotivated at school.
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I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.
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I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
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