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Quotes By James Purefoy

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.

James Purefoy
Happy Playing Rather

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.

James Purefoy
BestSaying Understand

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.

James Purefoy
Security Seem Taken

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.

James Purefoy
BusinessStay Worst

I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.

James Purefoy
Exciting Playing Watch

I have to travel a lot for work.

James Purefoy
TravelWork

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.

James Purefoy
Next Places Room

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

James Purefoy
FamousDecide Early

You know, people aren’t watching a network: they’re watching cable channels.

James Purefoy
Cable Network Watching

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.

James Purefoy
Few Obviously TV

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

James Purefoy
HomeCall

I was very unmotivated at school.

James Purefoy

I have no problem with television as a genre.

James Purefoy
Genre Problem Television

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at ‘action’ and off at ‘cut.’

James Purefoy
GoodAction Pretty

When you’re unhappy, you tend to play up, don’t you?

James Purefoy
Tend Unhappy
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