Time & Perspective Quote by Richard Dean Anderson

The punchline lands twice: first as a nod to the expected piety of celebrity gratitude, then as a deliberate swerve into something more honest - or at least more disarming. Richard Dean Anderson starts where press interviews practically require him to start: people, relationships, the long haul of a career. That clause is crowded with soft focus sentiment, the kind of safe answer an actor gives when the tape is rolling and everyone wants warmth. Then he undercuts it with a hard left turn: "but the catering. The catering". Repetition does the work here. It mimics the sudden clarity of a real preference and, at the same time, exaggerates it enough to signal performance. He knows exactly how unserious it sounds, and he leans in.

The intent feels less like vanity than a subtle rebellion against the mythology of show business as soulful vocation. On set, the work can be tedious, the hours punishing, the emotional labor constant. Food is a concrete pleasure in an industry built on abstraction - image, ego, roles, relationships that can be intense and then vanish after wrap. By naming catering, Anderson privileges the one reliable, egalitarian ritual on a production: everyone queues up. Stars and crew share the same buffet line, the same brief pause where the machine stops.

Subtext: don’t romanticize this life too much. The best part might be the simplest, most human thing in it.