Television Ads Quotes

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

The time has come for political campaigning, its techniques and strategies, to move out of the dark ages and into the brave new world of the omnipresent eye,

Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.

You can’t get to be an officeholder in America without buying television time.

There was a time when I never would have considered, ever, doing television commercials for records. I would never do that. That was something that you did for K-Mart.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

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

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.

When I need to go to my bank, I'll do television.

Why can't I prove that advertising can manifest itself in a way that doesn't necessarily mean television ads but changing behaviour and creating a brand out of something that already exists?

I was told that people did not like negative ads. So I didn't run any. I lost.

To think that an old soldier should come to this.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

Sooner or later, presidential campaigns would have professional actors as candidates who could speak the lines.

Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.

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

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

I love commercials.