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
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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.
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British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
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I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
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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.
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I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
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Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
travel work
I have to travel a lot for work.
people playing
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
corner playing quite rather typecast
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
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I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.
I have no problem with television as a genre.