When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
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… — James Purefoy Copy Share
I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect. — James Purefoy Copy Share
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay… — James Purefoy Copy Share
I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like… — James Purefoy Copy Share
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking. — James Purefoy Copy Share
When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people. — James Purefoy Copy Share
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and… — James Purefoy Copy Share
When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film. — James Purefoy Copy Share
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share
You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share
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. — James Purefoy Copy Share
Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is… — James Purefoy Copy Share
