Television Commercial Quotes

#1. At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Donna Rice

#2. Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Gerald R. Ford

#3. The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.

Neil Postman

#4. The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.

Neil Postman

#5. And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Sela Ward

#6. Today there are more people who know the words to a television commercial than know the words in the Bible.

Billy Graham

#7. Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

Donna Rice

#8. Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Jack Zipes

#9. A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim ... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

James Callis

#11. I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

David Morse

#12. It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Dennis Prager

#13. Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

Jennifer Stone

#14. I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

Helene Hanff

#15. As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

Jill Scott

#16. The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts ... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.

Tony Verna

#17. There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Henry Fairlie

#18. Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.

Alfred Robens

#19. It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent.

Tim Daly

#20. People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.

Nate Torrence

#21. Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.

Jonathan Dee

#22. You'll have to go get laid by a random stranger."
Bo pointed to the television. "Can I wait for a commercial or do I have to git-'er-done right now?"
"You can wait.

Rachel Gibson

#23. When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

Richard Lester

#24. I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in.

Scott Bakula

#25. Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer's life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow's marketer will first try to gain the consumer's consent to participate in the selling process.

Seth

#26. It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

Paul Gallico