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27 quotes by Anson Mount

Anson Adams Mount IV (born February 25, 1973) 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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I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

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

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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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It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

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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... →

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

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

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

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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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You don't need to like your protagonists.

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