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.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

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