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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I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

Tom Selleck

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

I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.

Tom Selleck

My first priority is time with my family.

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.

Tom Selleck

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

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.

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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.

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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.

Tom Selleck

I live a pretty simple life.

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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.

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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

Tom Selleck

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

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.

Tom Selleck

Author Bio

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