Tom Selleck Quotes

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

- Tom Selleck

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.

- Tom Selleck

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

- Tom Selleck

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

- Tom Selleck

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

- Tom Selleck

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

- Tom Selleck

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

- Tom Selleck

I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

- Tom Selleck

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

- Tom Selleck

Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

- Tom Selleck

I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.

- Tom Selleck

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

- Tom Selleck

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

- Tom Selleck

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

- Tom Selleck

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

- Tom Selleck

My first priority is time with my family.

- Tom Selleck

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.

- Tom Selleck

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

- Tom Selleck

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

- Tom Selleck

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

- Tom Selleck

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.

- Tom Selleck

Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.

- Tom Selleck

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

- Tom Selleck

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

- Tom Selleck

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

- Tom Selleck

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

- Tom Selleck

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

- Tom Selleck

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

- Tom Selleck

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

- Tom Selleck

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

- Tom Selleck

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.

- Tom Selleck

I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse.

- Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

- Tom Selleck

If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.

- Tom Selleck

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

- Tom Selleck

Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?

- Tom Selleck

I live a pretty simple life.

- Tom Selleck

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

- Tom Selleck