Words matter. These are the best James Purefoy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about… this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person’s persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.
We shot the first season of ‘Hap and Leonard’ towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone’s been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather’s like down there at that time of year: it’s unbearably hot for an Englishman.
If you read Grimm’s fairy tales, they’re absolutely terrifying.
I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you’ve ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, ‘Whoa, we need less.’ But that’s how he talks.
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.
You know, people aren’t watching a network: they’re watching cable channels.
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it’s six or seven years, generally speaking.
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
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.
I grew up in a very rural community in England.
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.
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they’re very different routes.
I am not a big fan of what I call ‘ambient television,’ which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go.
I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
Dieting isn’t complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
I’m a serial monogamist.
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
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.
I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at ‘action’ and off at ‘cut.’
Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.
The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!
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.
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.
I have no problem with television as a genre.
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.
When you’re unhappy, you tend to play up, don’t you?
When you don’t take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.
You really need to learn how to turn it on for ‘action’ and off for ‘cut.’
