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
travel work
I have to travel a lot for work.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
dieting
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
good turning
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
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.
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.
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.
affairs business finding hotels people perverse studios
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.
love
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
divided life malibu massive parties weirdly
I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.
people playing
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
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.