Ad Quotes

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

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.

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Plan the sale when you plan the ad.

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'.

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

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.

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

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

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.