James Purefoy Quotes

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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.

  James Purefoy

  Occupy Yourself, People, Upset

  Source: collider.com

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

  James Purefoy

  Lovely, Lovely Things, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

  James Purefoy

  Hero, Guy, Actors

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

  James Purefoy

  Fans, Patterns, Unexpected

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• One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

  James Purefoy

  Challenges, Different, Actors

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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.

  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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

  James Purefoy

  Tone, Irritating, Rings

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• I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

  James Purefoy

  Thinking, Should

  "When in Rome". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  James Purefoy

  Lonely, Drama, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  James Purefoy

  Actors, Want, Able

  "When in Rome". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• 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

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• 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

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• I like television that grabs you by your throat.

  James Purefoy

  Television, Throat

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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