Quotes About Advertising

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies.

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.

I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

Being the one person out there committed to not running negative ads - voters respond to that.

Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I don't like ads. I don't like selling things. That's not me.

What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.

There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.

I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets.

In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex.

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

I read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things.

I had no ambition to go into show business when I was growing up. I started out as an advertising copywriter and evolved into it. Once you get into it, however, it's very difficult to get out. It gets into your blood. You don't want to do anything else. You want that excitement.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Why can't I prove that advertising can manifest itself in a way that doesn't necessarily mean television ads but changing behaviour and creating a brand out of something that already exists?

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.