I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

- Anson Mount

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 …

- Anson Mount

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

- Anson Mount

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

- Anson Mount

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

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

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

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

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

- Anson Mount