Anson Mount

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. ”

I like being able to be a man. ”

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

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

I love getting paid to ride a horse. ”

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. ”

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

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

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