Tom Selleck Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.”

“I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.”

“The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”