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
perfect television scripts
I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.
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.
thinking scary trying
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.
smart people able
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.
lonely drama thinking
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.
drama thinking people
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.
believe reality serial-killer
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%.
hero guy actors
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.
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.
actors want able
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.
drawing historical lines
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
lovely watches lovely-things
Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.
thinking should
I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
patterns fans unexpected
Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.