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
patterns fans unexpected
Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
drawing historical lines
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
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.
actors want able
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.
tone irritating rings
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.
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.
lonely drama thinking
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.
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.
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.
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.