Quotes from Tom Selleck

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

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 be custom-made for you.

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.

Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?

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

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

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.

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

My first priority is time with my family.

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

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

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.

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.

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