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
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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.
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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.
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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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One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
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Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.
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I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
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Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
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Ancient Rome was a violent place.
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When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
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It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.
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One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
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You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
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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.