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
lovely watches lovely-things
Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.
christian believe islamic
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 dont just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
dream men thinking
One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.
lonely drama thinking
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.
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.
stars war men
To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.
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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.
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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.
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I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.
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Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
few tv
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.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?