Tom Selleck
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"Thomas William" ""Tom"" "Selleck" is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as the private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980 - 1988), based in Hawaii. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone novels/Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on Robert B. Parker novels. Since 2010, he has appeared as New York City Police Commissioner/NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods (TV series)/Blue Bloods on CBS.

Selleck has appeared in more than fifty film and television roles since his initial success with Magnum, P.I., including a co-starring role in the highest-grossing movie of 1987, Three Men and a Baby. He also held top billing in Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, and Lassiter (film)/Lassiter, to name a few. Selleck has also appeared as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends, where he played the on-again, off-again love-interest of Monica Geller (Courteney Cox). He played A.J. Cooper on the TV series Las Vegas (TV series)/Las Vegas.

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He said, 'I still got a lot of fight in me, and this isn't the end of the line,' ... And that's very much Chuck, too. He had a lot of humor Friday and it was great to talk to him.

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Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

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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.

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. [On his college registration experience].

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Going through my mind? Don't screw up, don't screw up Frank's birthday.

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I've got nothing against this particular set of candidates, but I do think we're not seeing enough of who they are, ... We're kind of seeing who they and their handlers think we want them to be.

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It's intimidating to play the nominee for president. The little kid inside you says, 'I'm not enough.' I would guess that happens to politicians, too. They go, 'C'mon, who am I kidding? I'm just this guy or this woman,'.

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Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

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I had a fantasy of being a pro baseball player, and I've gotten to play a Major League Baseball player (in 1992's 'Mr. Baseball'), ... I loved Westerns as a little kid and I get to do them. I even get to die as an actor and then you just go home and have dinner. It's great. So now, I'm not a candidate, but I play one on TV and I'll be home for dinner.

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