Quotes by James Purefoy

James Purefoy

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

People

Real

Who I Am

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

Actors

Way

Worst Enemy

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

Art

Cutting

Useless Stuff

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

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Rome

Violent

I couldn’t do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they’re very happy doing it, but for me, that’s not what I want. I like changing things, all the time.

Jobs

People

Years

I don’t have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

Real

Thinking

World

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

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Meat

Vegetables

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

Television

Throat

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

Drama

Lonely

Thinking

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.

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Want

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Quotes by James Purefoy

James Purefoy

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

I couldn’t do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they’re very happy doing it, but for me, that’s not what I want. I like changing things, all the time.

I don’t have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

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.

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