83 Quotes by James Purefoy

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

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.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

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.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.