Tom Selleck quotes

Tom Selleck is an American actor best known for his role as Thomas Magnum in the television series "Magnum, P.I." His signature mustache and charismatic presence have made him a pop culture icon. He continues to act in film and television, including a long-running role on "Blue Bloods." Here are 37 of his quotes:

I live a pretty simple life. (Tom Selleck)
People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy. View quote
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I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. View quote
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Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment. View quote
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All I see is people out there who are hungry for more. View quote
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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. View quote
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You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood. View quote
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Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think? View quote
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived [to sign up for courses], architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it. So I signed up for acting instead. View quote
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Blow me a raspberry. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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My first priority is time with my family. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk. View quote
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I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do. View quote
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You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman. View quote
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And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck - Image
Photo: Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Actor
Born: January 29, 1945
Quotes count: 37
Wikipedia: Tom Selleck

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