James Purefoy Quotes

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.

James Purefoy

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • You
  • Cheers

• The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Kids
  • Play
  • Mom

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Successful

• India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Value
  • Healthy
  • System

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• What matters most is the win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Most
  • Matters

• A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Me
  • Superman

• I do not like violence.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Like
  • Violence

• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Happiness

• Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beauty
  • Talent
  • While

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bored
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • America
  • Latin

• People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Kind
  • Ass

• We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Waste
  • Cannot
  • Idleness

• It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Happy
  • Thanks
  • Japanese

• There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Song

• Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Happy