Tom Selleck

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“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 th...”

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

“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 t...”

“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 ther...”

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

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

“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 pay...”

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

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

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

“I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.”

“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.”

“Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.”

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

“I live a pretty simple life.”