Quotes by Anson Mount - Page 1

I like being able to be a man.
Anson Mount / Actor
Men
Able
Be A Man
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I feel there’s no need to overstate.
Anson Mount / Actor
Feels
Needs
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I love getting paid to ride a horse.
Anson Mount / Actor
Horse
Paid
Ride
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You don't need to like your protagonists.
Anson Mount / Actor
Like You
Needs
Protagonists
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I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
Anson Mount / Actor
Hero
Thinking
Villain
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I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.
Anson Mount / Actor
Guy
Know How
Tough
Tough Guy
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I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.
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I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.
Anson Mount / Actor
Exposition
Overstate
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Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
Anson Mount / Actor
Arbitrary
Character
Good And Bad
Good Character Bad
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Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.
Anson Mount / Actor
Doe
Fame
Depending
Fundamentally
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I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!
Anson Mount / Actor
Church
Redemption
Want
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Different horses have different personalities. They're just like people.
Anson Mount / Actor
Horse
People
Personality
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The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
Anson Mount / Actor
Cable Tv
Programming
Television
Tvs
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Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.
Anson Mount / Actor
Different
Horse
Work Ethic
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We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
Anson Mount / Actor
Construction
Destruction
Taken
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I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
Anson Mount / Actor
Hero
Not Interested
People
Villain
Heroes
Villains
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For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
Anson Mount / Actor
Acting
Believe
Play
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I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
Anson Mount / Actor
Accelerate
Class
Fiction
School
Science Fiction
Classes
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I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
Anson Mount / Actor
Sympathy
Care
Character
Clear
Don't Care
Understandable
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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 / Actor
Experts
Horse
Riding
Horses
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Anson Mount / Actor
War
American History
Civil War
Grew Up
Civil
Huge Part
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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 / Actor
Men
Crybabies
Sometimes
Anybody Else
Claim
Just As Much
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It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
Anson Mount / Actor
Character
Southern
Rare
Vilified
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I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
Anson Mount / Actor
Character
Format
Long
Love Is
Television
Love Time Character
Develop
Period
Long Period
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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 / Actor
Men
Decades
Media
Two
Understood
Popular
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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 / Actor
Distance
Long
Long Distance
Years
Complete
Once A Year
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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.
Anson Mount / Actor
Acting
Believe
Play
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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.
Anson Mount / Actor
Vacation
Believe
People
Soul
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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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Gun
Hunting
Living Room
Rifles
Advocate
Corner
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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.
Anson Mount / Actor
Smart
Structure
Handed
Suddenly
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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.
Anson Mount / Actor
Gun
Horse
Real
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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 / Actor
Quality
Following
Humanity
Instinct
Subject Matter
Thinking
Western
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood
Establish
Gut
Laid
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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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New York
Dirty
Moving
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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.
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Military
Wall
Years
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