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Tom Selleck
American
Actor
Born:
Jan 29
,
1945
Always
Because
Been
Me
Think
You
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It'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 Selleck
Heart
Care
Mind
Conservatives
Liberals
Answers
Than
dont Care
Just
Difference
Different
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.
Tom Selleck
People
Disagree
Problems
Right Place
Way
Out
Solve
About
Only
Argue
Most
Learned
Hearts
Politically
Hanging
Where
The Only Thing
Place
Hollywood
Right
Thing
I live a pretty simple life.
Tom Selleck
Life
Simple
Live
Pretty
Simple Life
I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.
Tom Selleck
Think
Other
Those
More
Genre
Been
Western
Up
Than
Any
Grew
Movies
Watching
Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.
Tom Selleck
Son
Punch
Throw
Never
Redwood
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.
Tom Selleck
Time
Family
Me
Balance
Try
Long
Long Time
Took
Ranch
Off
Very
Train
Get
Quit
Hard
Helped
Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
Tom Selleck
Love
You
Hopefully
Marry
Someone
Only
Only Love
Like
Well
Who
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.
Tom Selleck
Work
Else
Guess
Dances
Tried
Some
Something
Something Else
Dead
Said
Wolves
Western
Westerns
Moved
Moved On
After
Derivative
I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.
Tom Selleck
Me
People
Other
Telling
Never
Well
I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.
Tom Selleck
Character
You
Important
Think
Know
Does
Real
Public
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
Tom Selleck
Hero
Mine
Besides
Jordan
She
Because
Always
Been
Accomplished
Barbara
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.
Tom Selleck
Relationship
You
Man
Woman
Culture
Experience
Down
Nowadays
Think
Settle
Tell
See
Having
Had
He
Simply
Modern
Modern Culture
Where
Decide
Wants
Story
Film
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
Tom Selleck
Good
Strong
Puritanical
Had
Upbringing
Really
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.
Tom Selleck
You
Opportunity
Pay
Think
Risk
Week
Price
Taking
Always
Praise
Fallen
Movie
Which
Movies
Storytelling
Standard
Niche
I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.
Tom Selleck
Challenge
Risk
Knew
Liked
Afraid
Screen
Realized
Really
If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.
Tom Selleck
Buy
You
Think
Point
Never
Expensive
Use
Thing
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.
Tom Selleck
Character
You
Matter
Job
Enough
Plot
Inside
Scary
Something
Lead
Head
Make
Hired
Get
Want
Interesting
Them
Your
Actor
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 payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
Tom Selleck
Me
You
Wait
Gun
Three
Gone
Down
Everybody
Significant
Fine
Through
Excitement
Bought
Make
Years
Going
Order
Ordering
Process
Then
Shotgun
Payment
Who
Four
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.
Tom Selleck
Day
Business
School
Guilt
Three
Enormous
Sign
Classes
Because
Go
Source
Contract
Left
Which
Century
Business School
Fox
You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.
Tom Selleck
You
TV
TV Series
Know
Up
Grew
Series
Watching
You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.
Tom Selleck
You
Pandering
Imitation
Know
Hollywood
Much
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
Tom Selleck
Character
Drawn
Like
Comedies
Scope
Westerns
Central
Them
Land
Really
Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.
Tom Selleck
Good
You
Advice
Bit
Good Parts
Scare
Parts
Always
Get
Little
Little Bit
Them
Might
Should
I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.
Tom Selleck
Hate
Stationary
Outdoors
Gym
Beats
Sure
Sitting
Going
Bike
Sweating
Navel
Staring
I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.
Tom Selleck
Innovation
Think
Television
Something
Always
Been
Replicate
Quite
Much
Successful
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.
Tom Selleck
Try
Stretching
Ability
More
Never
Concerned
Audience
Interested
Far
Really
Actor
Image
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