Tom Selleck

Actor

1945-01-29

Quotes by Tom Selleck

• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Never throw a punch at a redwood.

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