Television Quotes by James Purefoy

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

— James Purefoy

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

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

— James Purefoy

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

— James Purefoy

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

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

When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.

— James Purefoy

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

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

When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.

— James Purefoy

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

— James Purefoy

You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'

— James Purefoy

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

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

I have no problem with television as a genre.

— James Purefoy