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
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.
dieting
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
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.
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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.
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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.
television throat
I like television that grabs you by your throat.
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.
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.