James Purefoy Quotes

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James Purefoy

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 3, 1964

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.

James Purefoy

The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

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We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we fall in love with them again and go, 'I shouldn't be doing this,' but you can't stop it.

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Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he's wounded and complicated.

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I have no problem with television as a genre.

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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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One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

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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 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.

James Purefoy

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 think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

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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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Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

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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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I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.

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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

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As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

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I was very unmotivated at school.

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When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

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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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