Tom Selleck Quotes

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.

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

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

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

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 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.

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

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. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.