Quotes by Anson Mount

About Anson Mount:

Anson Adams Mount IV is an American actor. He is best known for playing Cullen Bohannon in the AMC show Hell on Wheels. He also played Jim Steele on the short-lived NBC series Conviction and appeared in the film Tully.
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Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

Anson Mount

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

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

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I love getting paid to ride a horse.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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You don't need to like your protagonists.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAnson Mount
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornFebruary 25, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor