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
dieting
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
divided life malibu massive parties weirdly
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.
affairs business finding hotels people perverse studios
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.
famous
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
rome ancient violent
Ancient Rome was a violent place.
occupy-yourself people upset
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
patterns fans unexpected
Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
lovely watches lovely-things
Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.
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.
television throat
I like television that grabs you by your throat.
vegetables actors meat
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.
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?