Daily Inspiration Quote by David Selby

There’s a quiet flex in Selby’s line, but it’s not ego so much as a veteran’s astonishment at television’s long afterlife. He’s describing a specific kind of artistic legacy: not the trophy-shelf kind, the bloodstream kind. The grammar does the work. “Haven’t met too many actors... that haven’t told me” is a double-negative piled on a double-negative, an almost folksy stutter that reads like sincerity trying to keep up with the volume of testimony. He’s not delivering a polished soundbite; he’s reporting a pattern he didn’t fully anticipate.

The intent is generous: to credit a show as a formative text for other performers. The subtext is more pointed. Actors don’t usually cite other actors as their origin story unless something about that earlier work gave them permission. Selby is talking about a series that functioned as a secret handshake - a signal that genre, melodrama, camp, or television itself could still be serious craft. When he says “meant to them,” he’s implying an emotional lodestar, but also an industry roadmap: the show demonstrated a way to build a career, a persona, a relationship with audiences.

Context matters here: this is an actor reflecting on a project that became larger than its initial cultural assignment. Selby frames the show not as a relic fans cling to, but as a recruiting tool that keeps producing new labor, new ambition. The real punchline is embedded in “today”: influence that refuses to stay politely in the past.