And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine
Tom SelleckAt 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.
Tom SelleckStand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
Tom SelleckBut, 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
Tom SelleckPopularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
Tom SelleckPeople tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
Tom SelleckIt's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
Tom SelleckWhich 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.
Tom SelleckHaving 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
Tom SelleckI 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
Tom SelleckI realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk
Tom SelleckThe 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.
Tom SelleckThe Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
Tom SelleckTelevision'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.
Tom SelleckShooting 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.
Tom SelleckI'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
Tom SelleckIf 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.
Tom SelleckI 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.
Tom SelleckI 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
Tom SelleckOn a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.
Tom SelleckThere 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
Tom SelleckI 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
Tom SelleckIt 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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