Daily Inspiration Quote by Robert Stack

A line like "I find these shows very touching sometimes" lands because it refuses to perform. Robert Stack, the flinty, patrician actor best known to many as the unblinking guide through Unsolved Mysteries, isn’t supposed to be “touched.” His whole screen persona is composure: crisp diction, squared shoulders, a reassuring distance between narrator and nightmare. So when he admits to getting moved, the effect is disarming. It punctures the armor without turning into a confession booth.

The wording does quiet work. “These shows” keeps it modest, almost procedural, as if he’s talking shop rather than emotions. “Very touching” is plain, unspecific, un-poetic; it reads like a man reaching for sincerity without liking the taste of it. Then “sometimes” reasserts control. He’s not claiming sentimentality as a brand, just acknowledging that certain stories slip past the professional boundary.

Context matters: Stack spent years hosting narratives built from loss, longing, and unresolved endings. The genre’s hook is voyeurism with a conscience - tragedy packaged as public service, danger framed as communal vigilance. Stack’s remark subtly legitimizes that bargain. If even the narrator, who has seen the tape a hundred times, can still be affected, the audience’s reaction becomes less morbid and more human. It’s also a small defense of television’s capacity for feeling in an era when “TV” still carried a whiff of disposable entertainment. Stack isn’t preaching; he’s letting the medium earn its emotional credibility in a single, carefully underplayed sentence.