Quote

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

Tom Selleck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Selleck
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 29
Actor
Basketball Player
Model
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Detroit
Michigan
Thomas William Selleck
Challenge
Afraid
Risk
Wasn
Challenges
Screen
Knew
Screens
Really
Liked
Realized

More quotes by Tom Selleck

Image
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
Image
I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do
Tom Selleck
Image
You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?
Tom Selleck
Image
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
Tom Selleck
Image
Life isn't fair, but you can be.
Tom Selleck
Image
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
Tom Selleck
Image
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine
Tom Selleck
Image
Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
Tom Selleck
Image
I 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 Selleck
Image
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
Image
Shooting 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 Selleck
Image
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
Image
If 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 Selleck
Image
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
Image
I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.
Tom Selleck
Image
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
Image
All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.
Tom Selleck
Image
People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
Tom Selleck
Image
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.
Tom Selleck
Image
My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.
Tom Selleck