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
dream thinking want
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.
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.
absolutely believe best hbo record saying understand vital
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.
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.
home
Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
famous
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
love
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
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.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
travel work
I have to travel a lot for work.