Anson Mount Quotes

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a horse under you and you're shooting a real gun, you almost don't have to act. It's just really amazing.

If you've ever tried to move from L.A. back to New York, that's a pretty hard move. You forget how cramped things are in New York. You forget how dirty it is in New York. But, it's been the best move of my life, not necessarily for my career, but for my soul.

I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

Different horses have different personalities. They're just like people.

Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

I like being able to be a man.

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.