Tom Selleck famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Jobs #Character #Interesting
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.
-- Tom Selleck

#Jobs #Doe #Nine
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

#Heart #People #Hollywood
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
-- Tom Selleck

#Opportunity #Risk #Pay
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

#Stars #Numbers #Confusion
We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.
-- Tom Selleck

#Judging #Lasts #Good Intentions
Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.
-- Tom Selleck

#Journey #Treats
Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.
-- Tom Selleck

#Thinking
People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
-- Tom Selleck

#Crazy #People
Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
-- Tom Selleck

#Wells #Hopefully
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical
-- Tom Selleck

#Strong #Upbringing
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

#Character #Mean #Land
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

#Mind #Stories #Casts
I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk
-- Tom Selleck

#Risk #Challenges #I Realized
Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,
-- Tom Selleck

#Independent #Libertarian
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

#Heart #Differences #Mind
All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.
-- Tom Selleck

#People #Hungry
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.
-- Tom Selleck

#Entertainment #Hollywood #Genre
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.
-- Tom Selleck

#Thinking #Issues #Guy
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
-- Tom Selleck

#Pockets #Popularity
You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.
-- Tom Selleck

#Tvs #Grew #Grew Up
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

#Mind #Target #Shooting
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

#School #Class #Guilt
My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.
-- Tom Selleck

#Mustache
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

#Block #Government #America
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine
-- Tom Selleck

#Hero #Jordan #Accomplished
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

#Men #Thinking #Stories
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

#Opportunity #Thinking #Risk
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

#Derivatives #Moved On #Said
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
-- Tom Selleck

#Character #Land #Comedy

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