50 Quotes by Anson Mount

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.