"I was Planning to Go into Architecture. But when I arrived [to sign up for courses] Architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it. So I signed up for acting instead." - televised interview broadcast the day before "Laguna Heat" was shown on N.Y. cable. "Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment." (in interview with American Western Magazine, January 2001 issue) "All I see is people out there who are hungry for more." - Tom Selleck talking about the public's desire to see more Western films in interview with Taylor Fogarty of American Western Magazine/ReadTheWest.com, January 2003. [about the movie Monte Walsh]: "I just really want people to see this movie and I hope they like it, because to me Monte Walsh probably reflects my sensibilities more than any other I've done in the Western genre. I'm really proud of it and I think it may be the best role I've ever had." "I don't know if my political opinions ever lost me work, but I know for sure they never got me any." "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." "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." "Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston." "There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a mustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion." [Explaining why he refused a cameo in a film adaptation of his TV series 'Magnum PI']: I tell you what worries me - because I love Magnum and we have loyal fans - is they take these TV show titles, and they buy them and they spend $100 million on special effects, and then they make fun of them and trivialize it. Then they try and get the actor who used to be in it to do some ridiculous cameo to prove to the audience that it's OK. And I will not do that.