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
travel work
I have to travel a lot for work.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
love
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
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.
dieting
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
home
Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
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.
absolutely believe best hbo record saying understand vital
I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.
bedside extreme hospitals maternity places
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
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.
art cutting useless-stuff
Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.
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.
believe play serial-killer
If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.
dream thinking want
I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.