Tom Selleck Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

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

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

My first priority is time with my family.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Obviously, it's one passion of mine. I mean, I don't always want to do westerns, but it's nice to always kind of have one in the works.

He's a fish out of water, which is something I always like to play.

He said, 'I still got a lot of fight in me, and this isn't the end of the line,' ... And that's very much Chuck, too. He had a lot of humor Friday and it was great to talk to him.

He's always going to be wrestling with that. When he's with Dr. Dick, he often changes the subject.

He didn't have to buy a house in the middle of nowhere, but he did. That certainly doesn't help with his brooding.

Saber River was a darker story. That character was at a darker point in his life and was carrying a secret that was kind of eating away at him.

For a character with longevity, you have to have that.

It's intimidating to play the nominee for president. The little kid inside you says, 'I'm not enough.' I would guess that happens to politicians, too. They go, 'C'mon, who am I kidding? I'm just this guy or this woman,'

I've got nothing against this particular set of candidates, but I do think we're not seeing enough of who they are, ... We're kind of seeing who they and their handlers think we want them to be.

I'm very proud of Quigley and I love playing Jesse Stone. That's not hype. We've got to do about fifty of these, but there are only five books.

I had a fantasy of being a pro baseball player, and I've gotten to play a Major League Baseball player (in 1992's 'Mr. Baseball'). I loved Westerns as a little kid and I get to do them. I even get to die as an actor and then you just go home and have dinner. It's great. So now, I'm not a candidate, but I play one on TV and I'll be home for dinner.

In the book, he's in his mid-30s and 5-foot-10.

His announcement was so typically Chuck -- he did it with grace and dignity and intelligence, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

If I can be an advocate of individualist solutions to our society's problems that are affirmative solutions, that's to me what conservatism means.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I think is very important ... then I certainly could stand up and I plan on remaining a life member for life.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.

I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.

I live a pretty simple life.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.

The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.