Daily Inspiration Quote by Paul M. Glaser

There is a particular kind of Hollywood humility baked into Paul M. Glaser's line: the practiced disbelief of someone who lived inside a hit and still refuses to mythologize it. He starts with "surprised" twice, as if popularity is an accident that happened to him, not a machine that studios build and rebuild. Coming from an actor, that posture matters. Performers are trained to be grateful, but they're also veterans of fickle audiences; surprise becomes a socially acceptable way to acknowledge success without sounding entitled.

The subtext is really about momentum: TV as the original spark, then the long afterlife of reruns, syndication, and nostalgia converting a finished show into a slow-growing asset. "Over the years" does a lot of work here. It names the quiet economic reality of pop culture in the late 20th century, when a series didn't just end - it recirculated, gathered new viewers, and turned into a reliable brand. Glaser frames the movie not as an artistic imperative but as an inevitability: "eventually" and "they" place the decision firmly with the industry, not the cast. It's the voice of someone who understands that adaptation isn't always inspiration; it's a conversion process.

Contextually, this is the logic of franchising before the word got tired. What sounds like casual hindsight is really a concise anatomy of how nostalgia becomes a business plan, and how actors learn to narrate that transformation with a mix of genuine amazement and knowing resignation.