Tom Selleck Quotes - Page 2

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

I live a pretty simple life.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.

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

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

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

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.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.