James Purefoy Quotes

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'

James Purefoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 3, 1964

Topics

WorkTimeSchoolBrickWallDrama

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

Joan Didion

HateWorldStartBookColorPerfect

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Andrea Corr

ToleranceDiscomfortHigh

I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

Summer Sanders

FocusMeTeamComebackPlayTrials

How would you like to find out how good my right is?

Sonny Liston

GoodYouFindRightOutWould

I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

Trevor Paglen

WorkPoliticsThinkPoliticalKnow

For me, family has always been more important than football. The most important thing for me is that my parents and my brother are fine. That is the first thing on my mind when I wake up every day.

Romelu Lukaku

FamilyDayFootballBrotherMindMe

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

Mike Gallagher

EducationHateSimpleThinkYouWay

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

Lisa Scottoline

SmartYouDeadWriteClassic

My first time in front of a camera, I said, 'Wonder Woman, I'm so glad you're here.' That's how I made a living.

Judge Reinhold

TimeWomanCameraYouWonderLiving

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road.

Johnny Mercer

FriendBabyRoadEndMoreMy Friend

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

David Warner

PeopleDownFilmGetPublicPut

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

Cheech Marin

TimeMyselfSchoolMotorcycleDrive

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