Anson Mount famous quotes

04-12-2025

I feel thereâ€™s no need to overstate.
-- Anson Mount

#Needs #Feels
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Care #Clear
I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!
-- Anson Mount

#Church #Redemption #Want
I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.
-- Anson Mount

#Guy #Tough #Tough Guy
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.
-- Anson Mount

#Horse #Riding #Experts
I like being able to be a man.
-- Anson Mount

#Men #Able
I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.
-- Anson Mount
I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
-- Anson Mount

#Hero #People #Villain
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

#Men #Two #Media
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Southern
Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.
-- Anson Mount

#Doe #Fame
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.
-- Anson Mount

#Men #Sometimes #Crybabies
For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
-- Anson Mount

#Believe #Play #Acting
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.
-- Anson Mount

#Distance #Years #Long
We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
-- Anson Mount

#Taken #Construction #Destruction
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.
-- Anson Mount

#Wall #Military #Years
I love getting paid to ride a horse.
-- Anson Mount

#Horse
I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
-- Anson Mount

#Hero #Thinking #Villain
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Arbitrary #Good And Bad
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
-- Anson Mount

#War #American History #Grew
I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
-- Anson Mount

#School #Class #Fiction
I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Love Is #Long
The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
-- Anson Mount

#Tvs #Cable Tv #Television
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.
-- Anson Mount

#Thinking #Humanity #Quality
You don't need to like your protagonists.
-- Anson Mount

#Needs #Like You #Protagonists

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