James Purefoy
James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoyis an English actor, producer and director. He is best known for portraying 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 June 1964
people actors reason
One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.
real who-i-am giving
Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.
jobs years people
I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they're very happy doing it, but for me, that's not what I want. I like changing things, all the time.
acting next way
What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.
television throat
I like television that grabs you by your throat.
want tvs life-is
My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.
perfect television scripts
I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.
worst-enemy actors way
Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.
thinking scary trying
You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.
smart people able
If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.
lonely drama thinking
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.
drama thinking people
One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.
believe reality serial-killer
One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.
hero guy actors
We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.