Anson Mount Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I feel there's no need to overstate.

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

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

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

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

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.

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

I like being able to be a man.

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.

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

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

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.

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