“One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.” DifferentActorsChallengesMonthsGreat Things Author: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.” WantStillsAbleActorsMy FriendsCornersBotheredSupermarketsPubs Author:James Purefoy
“We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.” EndsGuyActorsGoes OnHeroBe GoodShirtsBad GuysGood GuyTime Goes On Author:James Purefoy
“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.” WayActorsMy OwnEnemyWorstWorst EnemyBe Encouraged Author:James Purefoy
“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.” WantArtAgeActorsStuffCuttingAchieveSimplicityUselessGet BetterUseless Stuff Author:James Purefoy
“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.” DifferentActorsMeatVegetables Author:James Purefoy
“I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.” IfsThinkingLooksDifferentNextActorsRolesPrideTraditionBritishTheatreEnormousTheatrical Author:James Purefoy
“One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.” PeopleReasonActorsPeriods Author:James Purefoy
