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
vegetables actors meat
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.
people actors reason
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.
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.
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.
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.
challenges actors months
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
good turning
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
dieting
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
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.
love
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
home
Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.