English - Actor | June 3, 1964 -
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
James Purefoy
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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
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As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
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I was very unmotivated at school.
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When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
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One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
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You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
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When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
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