Quotes by Tom Selleck

• 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've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.
• If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.
• 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.
• You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.
• 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.
• You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.
• 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 think a lot of Magnum was me.
• 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.
• And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
• I live a pretty simple life.
• 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.
• I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.
• Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?