Anson Mount Quotes

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

My dream is to play ordinary characters. I have no interest in playing a pretty girl or an NRI girl.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Villains are fun to play.

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.