Ad Quotes

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

Plan the sale when you plan the ad.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

I like the Gap ad, the khaki one. I liked that.

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.