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" Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself. "
James Purefoy
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" You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels. "
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" As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. "
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" 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. "
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" Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that. "
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" I was very unmotivated at school. "
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" I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly. "
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" British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' "
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" One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months. "
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" I have to travel a lot for work. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. "
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" I love all things Apple and have done since 1996. "
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All Things
" 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. "
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" I think the older I get, the less I should be doing. "
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Older
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" When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews. "
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Started
Read
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" 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
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" Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they? "
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Just
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" I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. "
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" Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes. "
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Early
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" 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. "
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Path
People
Men
" 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. "
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Production
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" When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you? "
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Play
Unhappy
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