Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I…

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your…

— 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…

— Tom Selleck

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of…

— 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,…

— Tom Selleck

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

I live a pretty simple life.

— Tom Selleck

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land…

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

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

— 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,…

— Tom Selleck

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he…

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

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

— Tom Selleck

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone…

— Tom Selleck

I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard…

— Tom Selleck

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

— 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 think a lot of Magnum was me.

— Tom Selleck