Quotes About Commercials

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

It's good fun making commercials because you are picked up in a posh car and pampered all day by your personal pamperer, or 'runner' as they are known in the business.

The I&B Ministry, at their own convenience, can't pick and choose content in serials. We have weird commercials with a lot of objectionable content running on TV post 11 P.M., but nothing has been done to stop them?

I've also been known to cry during MasterCard commercials.

Well, that's what they do on television. Every fifteen minutes, there are breaks for commercials. That way we get to look forward to what's coming next. That's how it works in real life too.

Hair-trigger temper, but he wept at Hallmark commercials.

I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called 'Boiling Points' on MTV.

The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.

Twice a year we film the orange juice commercials and at home in our daily life I try to involve the children as much as possible even in preparing meals.

Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.

Back when people listened to the radio, you kept a tape handy in your boombox at all times so you could capture the hot new hits of the week. The intro would always get cut off, and the DJ would chatter over the end. You also ended up with static, commercials, and jingles, but all that noise just added to the field-recording verisimilitude.

My husband gets a new job, scoring soundtracks for commercials. The pay is better. It has benefits. How is it, people ask. "Not bad," he says with a shrug. "Only vaguely soul-crushing.

I think commercials are something that everyone does to get out there and get a little bit of exposure, get their feet wet, and also pay the bills. So anytime you can be a part of a wonderful, fun commercial, that's just a bonus.

My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.

I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.

Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.