Purefoy Actor Quotes & Sayings

I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun. — Shaquille O'Neal

I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool. — Simone Elkeles

Then what do you feel? It's all such a nothingness, what you feel and what you don't feel." "What — D.H. Lawrence

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

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind. — John Dryden

What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable. — Lionel Shriver

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. — James Purefoy

He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the world it was, the poor were starting to look alike, live alike, eat alike, and dress alike in the same kind of clothes all made in the same part of China. To him, it was a sign that the people had got severed from the land. — Marcel Theroux

Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor. — Gregory David Roberts

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. — James Purefoy

But this morning in meditation, after I heard the lion roar YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS, I came out of that meditation cave like worrior queen. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A woman's sex appeal has more to do with what other people think she has than what she actually has. It's the relationship and reputation she has with herself that I find desirable. — Riley Murphy

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure. — Joyce Meyer

I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting ... After I was into it, I had a feeling that I was going to end up doing this anyway somehow. — Tye Sheridan

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. — Rashida Jones

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. — 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. — James Purefoy