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I have no problem with television as a genre.

I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you've ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, 'Whoa, we need less.' But that's how he talks.

James Purefoy

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

James Purefoy

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.

James Purefoy

My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.

James Purefoy

When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.

James Purefoy

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.

James Purefoy

All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.

James Purefoy

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

James Purefoy

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

I have to travel a lot for work.

James Purefoy

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

James Purefoy

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

Playing Mark Antony in 'Rome' will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character to play. Also, the fact that we were able, with that character, to find out and present the public with a biography of that man that had not been really seen before.

James Purefoy

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.

James Purefoy

Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time , but every now and then, the sensation of being 'other' is very profound. You get this moment where you are no longer yourself. You lose consciousness of the crew or the audience... it's a thrilling moment. And even quite spiritual.

James Purefoy

I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.

James Purefoy

We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.

James Purefoy

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.

James Purefoy

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

James Purefoy

I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

James Purefoy

You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'

James Purefoy

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

James Purefoy

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

James Purefoy

When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.

James Purefoy

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

James Purefoy

I ran into my old friend Michael Kenneth Williams, who I worked with on a show called 'The Philanthropist' for NBC. He was going to be doing this show called 'Hap and Leonard.' He was playing Leonard, and they were looking for somebody to play Hap.

James Purefoy

I have no problem with television as a genre.

James Purefoy

I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.

James Purefoy

I'm a serial monogamist.

James Purefoy