Explore Quotes by Tom Selleck

My first priority is time with my family.

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

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

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

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

If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I think is very important ... then I certainly could stand up and I plan on remaining a life member for life.