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" Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them. "
Tom Selleck
Little
You
Scare
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" I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation. "
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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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" 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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" People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy. "
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" Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well. "
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" I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed. "
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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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" My first priority is time with my family. "
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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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" Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think? "
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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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Know
Mind
" 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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" I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does. "
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" I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies. "
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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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" I live a pretty simple life. "
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Pretty
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Life
" I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do. "
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" 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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" 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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" You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood. "
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" 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. "
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