"The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present."

“There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.”

“You don't need to like your protagonists.”

Source : "Anson Mount Talks Hell on Wheels Season 2, the Best Part of the Job, Walking the Line Between Hero and Villain and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2012.

“How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.”

“I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.”

“I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.”

“I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.”

“But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.”