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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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" I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse. "

Tom Selleck

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You

Prove

" I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation. "

" And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine. "

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

Tom Selleck

Think

Movies

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 live a pretty simple life. "

" 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. "

Tom Selleck

Good

Think

" 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

Three

Gun

" If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it. "

" 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

Westerns

Character

" 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. "

" My first priority is time with my family. "

" I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. "

" People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy. "

" I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel. "

" I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk. "

" I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed. "

" 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. "

" Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think? "

Tom Selleck

I Think

Suit

" 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. "

" I think a lot of Magnum was me. "

Tom Selleck

I Think

Lot

" 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. "

" You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman. "

Tom Selleck

You

Watching

" Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well. "

Tom Selleck

Marry

You

" 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. "

" You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood. "

" I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do. "

Tom Selleck

Well

Telling