The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold! — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things. — 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
I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I think, as an actor, I would find it a little run-of-the-mill doing procedurals where it's the same sort of thing week… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly,… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no… — 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
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months. — 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 Image
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect. — 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 to stay… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
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 Image
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking. — 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
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 Image
When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.' — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
