I live a pretty simple life.

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Tom Selleck, the famous American actor, likes to live a simple life. He doesn't need a lot of fancy things or activities. He's happy with a peaceful and uncomplicated lifestyle. Selleck prefers a life that's not too complicated or filled with too many distractions. He enjoys the simple pleasures and doesn't feel the need to have a lot of material possessions or a busy schedule.

About Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck is an acclaimed American actor known for his roles in popular TV shows like Magnum, P.I. and Blue Bloods, as well as films like Three Men and a Baby. He has received numerous awards and accolades over his long and successful career in the entertainment industry.

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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.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)

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.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)

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.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

I live a pretty simple life.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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.

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

Tom Selleck

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)

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

American actor (born 1945)