Quotes by Tom Selleck

About Tom Selleck:

Thomas William is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as the private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), based in Hawaii. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on Robert B. Parker novels. Since 2010, he has also been a primary cast member as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS.
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Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?

Tom Selleck

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

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

Tom Selleck

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

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

Tom Selleck

If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.

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 b...

Tom Selleck

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.

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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

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

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

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

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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

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

Tom Selleck

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.

Tom Selleck

Author Bio

  • NameTom Selleck
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJanuary 29, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Basketball Player; Film Producer; Voice Actor