James Purefoy Quotes

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.
James Purefoy

Important, Old, While

Ancient Rome was a violent place.
James Purefoy

Place, Violent, Rome

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

Used, Face, Actor

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

Good, Pretty, Off

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
James Purefoy

Famous, Different, Actor

Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
James Purefoy

Simple, Off, Eat

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.
James Purefoy

Someone, Dying, Next

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.
James Purefoy

Life, Live, Divided

I have no problem with television as a genre.
James Purefoy

Problem, Television, Genre

I have to travel a lot for work.
James Purefoy

I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
James Purefoy

Love, Done, Since

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

Friends, Able, Actor

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

Playing, Exciting, Watch

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.
James Purefoy

Business, Worst, Stay

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

I was very unmotivated at school.
James Purefoy

I'm a serial monogamist.
James Purefoy

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
James Purefoy

Big, Unexpected, Fan

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.
James Purefoy

Best, Saying, Understand

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, Yourself, Find

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.
James Purefoy

Women, God, Men

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

Great, Different, Challenge

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
James Purefoy

Between, Line, Films

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
James Purefoy

Irritating, Ring, Tones

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: June 3, 1964

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