Tom Selleck Quotes

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Tom Selleck

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 29, 1945

I live a pretty simple life.

Tom Selleck

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.

Tom Selleck

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

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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.

Tom Selleck

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

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

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I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.

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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.

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I think a lot of Magnum was me.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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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.

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