Tom Selleck Quotes

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 live a pretty simple life.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.