Ad Quotes

I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.

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

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in the U.S. today don't yet understand.

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

And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.

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.

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.

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 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.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

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.

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

A good ad which is not run never produces sales.

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.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

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'.

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

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

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

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?

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.