Top 25 Tom Selleck Quotes

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But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they

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
Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don’t you think?
Tom Selleck
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
I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn’t afraid of risk.
Tom Selleck
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
I think television has always been one to replicate when something’s successful. I don’t think there’s quite as much innovation.
Tom Selleck
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
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
People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
Tom Selleck
My first priority is time with my family.
Tom Selleck
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
Tom Selleck
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
I haven’t made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.
Tom Selleck
Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
Tom Selleck
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
If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don’t think there’s a point to it.
Tom Selleck
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.
Tom Selleck
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
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
You know, there’s so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.
Tom Selleck
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
Tom Selleck
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
I live a pretty simple life.
Tom Selleck
Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts… you might not get advice to do them.
Tom Selleck
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