Quotes from Anson Mount

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.

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

I like being able to be a man.

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

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

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

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.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

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

I'm a goofball.

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

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.

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 don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.

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.

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 love getting paid to ride a horse.

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

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

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

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.

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

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