Tom Selleck Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Audience

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Film, Succeed

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Problem

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

  Tom Selleck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accomplished

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

  Tom Selleck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Suit

• 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

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Risky

• 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

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Relationship

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Dance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Character

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excitement, Payment

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

  Tom Selleck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong

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

  Tom Selleck

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Afraid

• I think a lot of Magnum was me.

  Tom Selleck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Confusion

• Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

  Tom Selleck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never

• 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

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Character

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

  Tom Selleck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Never

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Answer, Mind

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Source

• 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

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Mind

Tom Selleck (24)

Birth:	29th January, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Producer, Writer

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