Quotes from James Purefoy

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

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.

A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.

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

The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!

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

I have no problem with television as a genre.

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

When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

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

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

I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.

I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.

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.

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.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.