Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

Having been trained as a stage actor, and then you go out there and you're on 40,000 acres and you have a…

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not…

— Anson Mount

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart…

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

You don't need to like your protagonists.

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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…

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

— Anson Mount

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

— Anson Mount

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check…

— Anson Mount

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…

— Anson Mount

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

— Anson Mount