Anson Mount Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

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

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

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

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

I like being able to be a man.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

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

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

You don't need to like your protagonists.