Tom Selleck Quotes
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I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do
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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.
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I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk
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If a guy as good and decent with as much grace as Chuck Heston can stand up for an issue that I think is very important ... then I certainly could stand up and I plan on remaining a life member for life.
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My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.
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Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
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Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.
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Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
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I live a pretty simple life.
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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 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.
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Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
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Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings.
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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
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You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?
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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.
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And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine
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The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
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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
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The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.
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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
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Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.
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People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
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Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.
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It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.
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Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical
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