Anson Mount Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

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 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.

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.

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 like being able to be a man.

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

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

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

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

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