Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Selleck
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.
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.
I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.
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.
You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.
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 haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.
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.
Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?
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.
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 live a pretty simple life.
If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.
I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.
I think a lot of Magnum was me.
People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
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.
My first priority is time with my family.
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 had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
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.
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
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.
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 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 think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.
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.
Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.
I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.
You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.
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.
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.
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.
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
Life isn't fair, but you can be.
All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.
I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk
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
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 had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical
My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.
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.
We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.
Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings.
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.
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do
Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.
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.
Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.
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.
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
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
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