Ad Quotes

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

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.

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

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'.

We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

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.

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?

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

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

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.