Actors tend to get better ...

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.
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.
 James Purefoy

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It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.
 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
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.
 James Purefoy
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.
 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.
 James Purefoy