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James Purefoy [1964-0] English

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James Brian Mark Purefoy is 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.

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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.		101
Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.		102
Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?		103
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.	Cool	104
I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.		105
Ancient Rome was a violent place.		106
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.		107
I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.		108
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.		109
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.		110
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.		111
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.		112
I have no problem with television as a genre.		113
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.		114
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.		115
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.		116
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.		117
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.		118
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.		119
I was very unmotivated at school.		120
When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.		121
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.		122
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.		123
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'		124
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.		125
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?		126
I have to travel a lot for work.		201
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.		202
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.		203
I'm a serial monogamist.		204

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