Latest James Purefoy Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

  James Purefoy

  Real, Thinking, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I've never been "celeb-y" actor. You know, you don't catch me falling out of nightclubs at three o'clock in the morning. Well, very rarely! But I find it all a bit baffling, the whole celeb thing and I don't really get it.

  James Purefoy

  Morning, Fall, Catch Me

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  "‘Hap and Leonard': James Purefoy on the Show’s ‘Butch and Sundance’ Vibe". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2016.

• One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

  James Purefoy

  People, Actors, Reason

  Source: collider.com

• I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they're very happy doing it, but for me, that's not what I want. I like changing things, all the time.

  James Purefoy

  Jobs, Years, People

  "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.

• Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

  James Purefoy

  Real, Who I Am, People

  Source: collider.com

• I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.

  James Purefoy

  Pride, Thinking, Theatre

  "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.

• What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

  James Purefoy

  Acting, Way, Next

  "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Vegetables, Meat, Different

  "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.

• Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

  James Purefoy

  Sexy, Ugly Things, Looks

  "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Play, Serial Killer

  Source: collider.com

• When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

  James Purefoy

  Occupy Yourself, People, Upset

  Source: collider.com

• Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

  James Purefoy

  Lovely, Lovely Things, Watches

  Source: collider.com

• One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

  James Purefoy

  Believe, Reality, Serial Killer

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Art, Cutting, Useless Stuff

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Drama, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Smart, People, Able

  Source: collider.com

• I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

  James Purefoy

  Lonely, Drama, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Worst Enemy, Actors, Way

  Source: collider.com

• You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

  James Purefoy

  Thinking, Scary, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

  James Purefoy

  Perfect, Pieces, Television

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Want, Tvs, Life Is

  Source: collider.com

• I like television that grabs you by your throat.

  James Purefoy

  Television, Throat

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Stars, War, Men

  Source: screenrant.com

• 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.

  James Purefoy

  Dream, Thinking, Want

  Source: screenrant.com