James Purefoy Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
June 3, 1964

James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor, producer and director. He played Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome, former college professor-turned-serial-killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following, and Solomon Kane in the feature film Solomon Kane. In February 2018 he starred as Laurens Bancroft in Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series.

Also known as Producer, Director

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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- Heart
- Soul
- Black
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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- Different
- Famous

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

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I was very unmotivated at school.

James Purefoy
- School
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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- Dying
When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

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If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

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

James Purefoy
- Up