Quotes from 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

I live a pretty simple life.

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

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.

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

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.

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

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.

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.

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