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

Anson Mount

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Anson Mount
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 25
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Anson Adams Mount IV
Heroes
Hero
Interested
Playing
People
Villains
Villain

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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.
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We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
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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.
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I love getting paid to ride a horse.
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Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic.
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
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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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I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!
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Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
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I feel there’s no need to overstate.
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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 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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Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.
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I like being able to be a man.
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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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I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
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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.
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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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For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
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