Anson Mount Quotes

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 like being able to be a man.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.