Marriage Quote by Gavin MacLeod

The sting in Gavin MacLeod's line is how calmly it demolishes the glamor myth. A "one hour show" sounds tidy on paper, almost leisurely compared to film shoots or touring. MacLeod weaponizes that understatement: the repetition of "week after week after week" turns a standard TV schedule into a slow, grinding erosion. The point isnt that work is hard; its that routine, televised success can be uniquely corrosive because it never gives you a clean ending. No wrap party, no finish line, just perpetual Monday.

His phrasing is revealingly passive. "Its very trying on a marriage" reads like a weather report, as if strain is atmospheric rather than chosen. Then comes the real confession: "You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority". "Maybe" is doing a lot of work. It signals guilt without surrendering to it, a subtle self-protection common in public-facing professions where the job is also the identity. He's admitting the inversion of values that fame encourages: the show becomes the non-negotiable, the spouse becomes the flexible one.

Context matters: MacLeod came up in the era of long-running network TV, where actors were locked into relentless production calendars and promotional obligations, sold as stability and prestige. The subtext is a quiet warning from inside the machine: success doesnt just take your time, it rewires your sense of what - and who - can be postponed.