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Quotes About Commercials

Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.
~ Bar Refaeli
The first time I was paid was with 'The Lobster,' because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves - work for free while making commercials in order to survive.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
~ Tom Shales
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.
~ Stephen Chbosky
According to some commercials, driving an SUV means you support terrorists. The answer is the hybrid gas-electric car, which only supports terrorists when going uphill.
~ Jon Stewart
With my years of promos & commercials, I actually have a massive amount of experience with regards to production. There pretty much isn't one thing I haven't tried at least once.
~ Johan Renck
I think the fun part with the commercials is that I've been able to show a different side of my personality, relax, and be a little sillier than normal.
~ Buster Posey
I think everybody, from whatever town they're from, knows their hometown commercials.
~ Sam Richardson
I did the commercials for Gillette during the World Series and at one point I had 27 different beer contracts.
~ Thurl Ravenscroft
I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.
~ Anthony Edwards
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
~ Aaron Paul
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
~ Ethan Suplee
I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
~ Fiona Dourif
I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
~ James Earl Jones
Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.
~ Jimmy Fallon
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
~ Renny Harlin
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
~ Francia Raisa
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
~ Christopher Guest
When I was little, I didn't even know what acting was. But I was in commercials - baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.
~ Jacob Tremblay
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
~ bell hooks
The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.
~ Al Jourgensen
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what TV commercials and pop materialist culture have been brainwashing us to do from birth.
~ Steven Pressfield
He had the marketing department organize tests, running commercials in only the Minneapolis and Portland media markets and measuring whether they generated an uptick in local purchases. They did—but, Bezos concluded, not enough to justify the investment.12 "It was pretty clear afterward that TV advertising wasn't really having an impact," says Mark Stabingas, a finance vice president who joined the company from Pepsi.
~ Brad Stone
He flipped the channels because there were a lot of commercials on and because he was male.
~ Harlan Coben