Daily Inspiration Quote by Sela Ward

There’s a whole industry therapy session packed into that breezy, half-shrug of a line. “As for ABC you can’t take it personally” is the classic Hollywood coping mechanism: translate rejection into weather. Networks don’t “break up” with you; they “pivot.” By insisting it’s not personal, Ward is naming the insult while pretending it isn’t one, a useful trick in a business that constantly asks performers to stay likable while being disposable.

Then she lands the blade: “We had three good years.” Not four, not “a great run,” not gratitude dressed up as PR. Three. It’s the blunt arithmetic of network TV, where your relationship with a studio is measured in seasons and ad rates, not loyalty. The sentence reads like someone talking about an ex who swore they’d always be friends. It’s casual, but the specificity is a tell: she’s already doing the postmortem.

The subtext is about power and dignity. Ward isn’t begging, raging, or mythologizing the show’s value. She’s controlling the narrative by narrowing it to what can’t be argued with: time spent, work done, a run that was real. In the era when broadcast networks could anoint you and then erase you, that refusal to internalize corporate decision-making is its own small act of self-preservation. The “we” matters, too: she’s speaking for a cast and crew who lived inside the machine, and learned the hard rule that affection in TV is often just a contract with good ratings.