Best Commercials Quotes

#1. I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products. - Author: Douglas Rushkoff

#2. I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential. - Author: Kevin Harrington

#3. Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad. - Author: Evan Rachel Wood

#4. Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs. - Author: Vic Tayback

#5. I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane. - Author: Doug Liman

#6. I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back. - Author: Ricky Schroder

#7. Here's my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break. - Author: Mark Romanek

#8. It's easy to see from commercials the sorts of activities I should presumably be engaged in, but I'm fairly certain that American manhood is vague, internally contradictory and largely nonsensical. - Author: Tycho Brahe

#9. Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials. - Author: Gordon Willis

#10. The campaign commercials don't tell you anything. - Author: David A. Siegel

#11. The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg. - Author: Timothy Olyphant

#12. Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the [...] film [...] is now given over to advertising where our senses and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will - Author: Bell Hooks

#13. I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that. - Author: Fredrik Bond

#14. I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now. - Author: Dan Trachtenberg

#15. I love commercials. - Author: Willard Scott

#16. Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors. - Author: Stephen Chbosky

#17. I like listening to my playlist on the iPod. I don't want radio with commercials. - Author: Paul Dano

#18. No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison. - Author: David Foster Wallace

#19. I'm a facist about spoilers. I'm the biggest pain in the ass to the marketing and promotions department. If I had my way, the commercials would be 30 seconds of black with a few words on them. - Author: Brian Austin Green

#20. I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards. - Author: Carrot Top

#21. I'm surprised how many commercials and sitcoms and movies have a need for, 'We just need something to come by the camera that's really weird.' They call Doug Jones. - Author: Doug Jones

#22. I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place. - Author: Lenny Kravitz

#23. When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music. - Author: Patrick Carney

#24. When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera. - Author: Pawel Szajda

#25. You see so many movies ... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy. - Author: Peter Bogdanovich

#26. You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire. - Author: David Ogilvy

#27. I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial. - Author: Mike Wallace

#28. I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative. - Author: Channing Tatum

#29. I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows. - Author: Malin Akerman

#30. I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions. - Author: Bailee Madison

#31. TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please. - Author: Dick Wolf

#32. People know elections, like television commercials, are not real. - Author: William Greider

#33. Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding. - Author: Jeff Goodby

#34. A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda. - Author: Jim Gaffigan

#35. Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children. - Author: Marshall Herskovitz

#36. The owner of Papa John's may not be the best pitchman, but he's the worst at acting. Papa John's commercials actually make me yearn for a Men's Wearhouse commercial. - Author: Jim Gaffigan

#37. I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll. - Author: Thomm Quackenbush

#38. If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else? ... We're all consumers ... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far. - Author: Stan Freberg