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29 quotes by James Purefoy

James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor best known for portraying the title character in the 2009 epic fantasy film Solomon Kane, for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome, and for his current role as Joe Carroll, a professor-turned-serial-killer in the TV series The Following.
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Ancient Rome was a violent place.

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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... →

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I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

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Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

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One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

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Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.

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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... →

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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... →

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As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

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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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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

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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.

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I have no problem with television as a genre.

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