Tom Selleck Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

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

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

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

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

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.

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

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.

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings.

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

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 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

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

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

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

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk

I live a pretty simple life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

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.

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