Commercials Quotes

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.

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.

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

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.

Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

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.

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

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

One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

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 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.

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

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 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 did a couple of American Express commercials.

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

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

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

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.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

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

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.