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.
pride thinking theatre
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.
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.
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.
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.
thinking should
I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
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.