Tom Selleck quotes:

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

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 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.

My first priority is time with my family.

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.

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.

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

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

I live a pretty simple life.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

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.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

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

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.

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

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

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

Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

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 had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

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

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

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.

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

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

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

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

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

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

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.

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.

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

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

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

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