I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
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. — 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
