James Purefoy Quotes

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James Purefoy

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 3, 1964

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'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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British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

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You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.

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When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?

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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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I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.

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I have to travel a lot for work.

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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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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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Ancient Rome was a violent place.

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Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time , but every now and then, the sensation of being 'other' is very profound. You get this moment where you are no longer yourself. You lose consciousness of the crew or the audience... it's a thrilling moment. And even quite spiritual.

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As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

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I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'

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When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.

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I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.

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When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.

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I grew up in a very rural community in England.

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A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.

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