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James Purefoy
English
Actor
Born:
Jun 3
,
1964
Actor
Get
Man
People
Think
You
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Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
James Purefoy
Myself
Home
Feel
Most
Call
Where
Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
James Purefoy
Ring
Just
Irritating
Tones
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
James Purefoy
You
Face
Gentle
Get
Little
Used
Actor
Receiving
I was very unmotivated at school.
James Purefoy
School
Very
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
God
You
Women
People
Path
Men
Believe
Out
Telling
Look
Mostly
Islamic
Around
Got
Lot
Heaven
Just
Mean
Them
Us
Who
Awful
Awful Lot
Things
Fundamentalist
Christians
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
James Purefoy
Good
Action
On And Off
Pretty
Pretty Good
Off
Cut
Turning
Large
Actor
British
British Actors
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
James Purefoy
You
People
Channels
Network
Cable
Know
Watching
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
James Purefoy
You
Unhappy
Tend
Up
Play
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
James Purefoy
Love
All Things
Since
Done
Apple
Things
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
Business
People
Think
Worst
Kind
Finding
Stay
Some
Studios
Hotels
Affairs
Get
Perverse
Satisfaction
Actor
When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.
James Purefoy
Sundance
Favorite
Absolute
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Film
Butch
I grew up in a very rural community in England.
James Purefoy
Community
Rural
Up
Very
Grew
England
We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we fall in love with them again and go, 'I shouldn't be doing this,' but you can't stop it.
James Purefoy
Love
You
People
Fall
Back
Relationships
Our
Our Lives
Come
Always
Doing
Fallen
Go
Stop
Again
Them
Who
Lives
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
People
Way
Out
Scams
Find
Rut
Schemes
Never
Pyramid
Get
Trying
Pub
Themselves
Worked
Full
The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.
James Purefoy
Difficult
East
Accent
Texas
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
Time
Weather
First
Year
Down
Summer
Baton
Hot
Towards
Like
Know
Around
Been
End
Louisiana
Anyone
Shot
Rouge
Englishman
Season
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.
James Purefoy
You
Seven
States
Sign
Generally
Years
Up
Six
Show
Speaking
United
United States
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
Insecurity
Kind
Paranoia
Horror
Feeds
Audience
Any
Dependent
Certain
Works
Amount
Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.
James Purefoy
You
Become
Own
Too
Once
Those
Kids
Horrible
Horror
Horror Movies
Because
Situations
Stop
Children
Movies
Them
Your
Watch
Watching
Imagine
I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
James Purefoy
Big
Like
Big Fan
Unexpected
Fan
Patterns
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
James Purefoy
You
Complicated
Simple
Eat
Calories
Off
Dieting
Burn
I have no problem with television as a genre.
James Purefoy
Problem
Television
No Problem
Genre
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
James Purefoy
Great
You
Great Things
Challenge
Few
Every
Months
About
Being
Different
Actor
Things
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
You
Because
Very
Famous
Different
Want
Decide
Actor
Routes
Early
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
Sit
Just Be
Corner
Able
Supermarket
Bothered
Still
Go
Friends
Get
Just
Want
Pub
Really
Actor
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
You
Happy
Yourself
Miserable
Corner
Typecast
Find
About
Rather
Always
Am
Been
Quite
Being
Where
Then
Villain
Playing
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