Commercials Quotes

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

I did a couple of American Express commercials.

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.

I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.