Anson Mount Quotes & Sayings

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

#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#12. 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 you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

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

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#14. The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#22. 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.

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

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#24. You don't need to like your protagonists.

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#25. 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.

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