James Purefoy Quotes
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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 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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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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I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over the course of 22 episodes, we were able to tell the stories of these people. We had a beginning and middle and end, and as we went on, you changed every week.
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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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You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'
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I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
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The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!
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The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.
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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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All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.
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My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.
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You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
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You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.
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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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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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One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
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I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.
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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 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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I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.