James Purefoy Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• I like television that grabs you by your throat.

  James Purefoy

  Television, Throat

  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'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

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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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 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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