Top 222 Commercials Quotes

I appreciate everything. I built my career from very humble beginnings. Every job I’ve had, every next rung on the ladder, I appreciate because I know where it started – I started doing Pac-Man vitamin commercials.

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don’t like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.

The key here is that we’re not going to beat them on commercials: They’re always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

The great movies and the great commercials always work on every single level.

I actually didn’t grow up watching ‘Degrassi,’ but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn’t realize that Drake was the guy from ‘Degrassi.’ I had to piece it together and go, ‘Oh! He’s Aubrey Graham.’

I love being able to tell a story visually. It’s something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

When I was little, I didn’t even know what acting was. But I was in commercials – baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.

I had done a few commercials here and there, but I was never super lucky in commercials.

My mom is pretty unimpressed by everything. She loves black-and-white movies, and the only things she watches in color on T.V. are Judge Judy and Geico commercials because she loves the Geico gecko. I think it would mean something to her if I made it in a Geico commercial.

When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that’s worth 2,000 commercials.

In my films that I’ve directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I’ve rarely used handheld. It’s just not something I’m drawn to, but I’ve seen it done very well.

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

Man, if they played the commercials for ‘Murderball’ as much as they do for ‘Hustle & Flow,’ ‘Murderball’ would blow up!

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints – they’re equally satisfying, but in different ways.

Because I was happy in my space, I was doing commercials, masala films, love stories… But somewhere as an actor I wanted to push myself to reach a large audience and play a different role.

But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

I don’t want to sound conceited, but people were intrigued with me and thought I was crazy and the word got around about this wacky disc jockey who could do 10 commercials in 10 minutes – what I did was make fun of the commercials.

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That’s your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.

I’ve always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials… I’d say things like, ‘Hi, Marge, how’s your laundry?’ and ‘Hi, I’m a real nice Georgia peach.’ Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

I think commercials are something that everyone does to get out there and get a little bit of exposure, get their feet wet, and also pay the bills. So anytime you can be a part of a wonderful, fun commercial, that’s just a bonus.

I went on to being an Ivory Soap baby for television commercials, and for three years, I sat in a bathtub and said either, ‘And it floats,’ or ‘Get some today.’

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn’t read the cue cards.

Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife’s hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.’ My kids almost had shirts made up that said, ‘Teri Hatcher is not my mom.’

Although the TV commercials will try and have you believe otherwise, there is nothing good about breakfast cereal. No matter how ‘low fat’ or ‘high in fibre’ the box tells you it is, ditching the high sugar cereals is the first step you need to take towards a better breakfast.

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

I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn’t feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.

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.

I honestly don’t even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.

The I&B Ministry, at their own convenience, can’t pick and choose content in serials. We have weird commercials with a lot of objectionable content running on TV post 11 P.M., but nothing has been done to stop them?

We’re a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that’s what I’ve done here. But it’s worth it to me to be in a really good play.

I make commercials and funny videos and T.V. shows or whatever, film projects that people will watch for ten minutes and go ‘Heh’ and get on with their day. I essentially… make comic books.

At first, we lived in very, very small places… with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.

At its best, MTV puts a face to the names, if you know what I mean. I think if you can take the expression of a song much farther, that’s great. And it’s one of the only outlets there is for artistic filmmaking. But it’s a double-edged sword. At it’s worst, MTV is just a lot of TV commercials for songs.

At 19, I got signed up for commercials, it was easy money.

I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That’s been really good.

I made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.

My first projects were mostly European commercials and music videos.

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials – that was my bread and butter.

For me, Santa was white, and he was in Coca Cola commercials. You never saw a black Santa on TV and in movies, and when you did, it was usually a bum with a Santa hat, or a bunch of jewelry.

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.

I cry at anything remotely touching – smile at me warmly and I’m off… television also does it, everything from ‘X-Factor’ to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.

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.

If you don’t like your job, then change it by getting some better skills. Until then, shut up and get my burger with a smile, like in the commercials.

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, ‘I think you belong in commercials and TV.’ So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

You have to make people feel things. I think that’s what commercials are, from a commercial for a car, a phone or anything that might be, they want to do it. The first iPhone was sold by how exciting it was to hold pictures of your family, not how great a phone it was.

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That’s what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

When I first came to Southern California I enrolled at UCLA in pre-med. My fathers a doctor. But the sight of blood turns me off, so I began doing television commercials.

I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five – this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16… but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It’s becoming more of a norm.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ and it’s why I even got in the door for ‘Mad Men.’

I would like to have the best of both worlds and still enjoy doing fashion shows and shooting for commercials.

I grew up watching people and companies commercialize Black History Month. I watched old McDonald’s commercials, and they’d blacken up the commercials for 28 days then go back to normal in March. It got annoying to me.

I was in a play called ‘Hood.’ I was an extra in ‘Passion of the Christ.’ I did corporate videos, commercials, little university short films. Just anything that I could be a part of, really.

My sister pursued acting, and one day, I was like, ‘Hey, I want to do acting, too’ – this was just in commercials – and then one day, I got an audition for my first movie, ‘Smurfs 2,’ and I did it.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

It’s wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living – whether you’re a writer or an actor or a director – in movies or commercials. But you do theater out of love.

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.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

The first time I was paid was with ‘The Lobster,’ because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves – work for free while making commercials in order to survive.

I’ve wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris… while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone’s ‘Alexander.’ I didn’t get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

When I first auditioned for ‘Stranger Things,’ I was just living in Chicago. Just looking for a job. Working at a restaurant, doing commercials and bit parts on shows. I honestly would have been happy booking anything.

I like listening to my playlist on the iPod. I don’t want radio with commercials.

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It’s like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There’s something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

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

Sometimes when I’m reading a script, I can’t quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

You can’t watch ‘Dr. Strangelove’ with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

I’d say, specifically after ‘Get Smart,’ people now know me either as The Guy from ‘Get Smart’ or ‘She’s Out of My League’; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.

A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials.

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

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, ‘I’m going to New York to become a performer.’ And I left.

Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.

My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.

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

My favorite commercial I did was my Verizon campaign, which I filmed a series of three commercials. My favorite movie I have done was ‘House Under Siege’ because it was my very first movie at 5 years old. My favorite TV show I have filmed was ‘The Night Shift,’ which is one of my favorite shows.

A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn’t get killed by distracting the bull. That’s what TV writing is. You’re just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.

In my career, I have done more than a thousand voice-overs in commercials, cartoons, and radio shows, so I’m very familiar of my voice capabilities and its range.

I did a couple of American Express commercials.

I haven’t done many commercials, and I’m very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.

We all understand the economics of the Super Bowl – 10 or 12 minutes of the ball in motion will be stretched into three and a half hours or more of money-making commercials.

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.

This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I’m working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I’m working with another really good friend.

I’m either shooting for films or commercials, attending events, or meeting people, so on and so forth.

I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got ‘Issaq’ through auditioning.

I started with commercials – for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called ‘Satellite’ that did well in festivals.

My first acting job – I used to do commercials, and I had done a couple music videos – but my first job job was ‘ATL’ with T.I. I auditioned for that, like, five times. I didn’t have an agent. And then, from there, my life changed.

Actually I love acting in commercials and I see no shame in that.

Commercials were once TV’s version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn’t offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I can’t make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

I always loved films, and when I decided to go to film school, it was with the excuse that I would go into making commercials, because that would be a proper profession, and people wouldn’t think I was crazy.

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.

I suddenly got magazine covers, TV commercials and advertising campaigns. Finally after two years I could show my mum and dad that modeling was lucrative.

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it’s going to be a different kind of television show.

I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn’t watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it’s kind of normal to do that.

I’ve always been a fan of advertising, I’ve always been a fan of television, I’ve loved commercials, I’ve loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

In Chicago it’s really a case of the play’s the thing – people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors – not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.

I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.

I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called ‘Boiling Points’ on MTV.

I don’t feel as though I’ve graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren’t compartmentalised.

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

I made a movie in Morocco. I made a movie in Brazil. I’ve made commercials all over the world. Every set looks like another set.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the ’50s.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

I’m looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I’m building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

The campaign commercials don’t tell you anything.

How much money I demand – or don’t demand – is my prerogative as an actor. However, when it comes to commercials, my outlook is different. And in that area, I do try to set certain standards, financially or otherwise.

Realness is something in such short supply; you can’t believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then during the commercials, they are lying to you there also. You can’t believe anything, but when you go see a drag show, something real is happening on stage.

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That’s how I’ve been making my living. And now the company is very successful – to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.

I used to do commercial acting. I’ve been in Lunchables commercials, Honda commercials, Blue Diamond Almonds commercials.

That’s why I’ve always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

I got my SAG card doing commercials.

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver’s license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person’s struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don’t believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

I think of music videos as commercials for songs.

I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater.

I didn’t come to L.A. thinking, okay, I’m going to be an actor, so my progression was just kind of organic, starting in print modeling, which I was far less successful in, then acting in television commercials.

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.

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

Both my sisters and I were in Stage Door plays, and we did that together, just in, like, little small plays together. And we did that, and it was really fun, and we kinda did commercials, and it kinda took off from there. It was great; it’s what I love.

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.

My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.

I love Victoria’s Secret and the brand, and I’m passionate about Victoria’s Secret commercials, too.

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I’ve always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursuing my B.Tech, so the obvious choice after finishing my studies was to do a job. But while I was modelling and doing TV commercials, I really loved being in front of the camera. I enjoyed the shooting process.

My daughter’s dabbling in showbiz, and she’s done a few commercials. She’s auditioned for some movies and shows, so I’m letting her pursue that. I’m OK with it.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I’m acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

Peyton Manning is funny, hence the ‘Saturday Night Live’; you see him in his commercials. He’s funny.

I want to do everything. I want to do commercials, endorsements. I want to design.

I’ve done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi’s and Molson Beer. You wouldn’t know it. But some of it’s damn good.

I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I’d get a college fund.

The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier – and for me.

When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.

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

Remember that the NFL was cultivated into prominence by Pete Rozelle, a pro-war conservative. In the 1960s, Rozelle hired a World War II veteran-turned-filmmaker, Ed Sabol, to produce highlights, commercials and documentaries that marketed the sport as patriotic and militaristic.

I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call ‘TV shows’ are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on ‘free’ TV are shows that help sell products.

I’m someone who believes that all political campaigns need to be grassroots-driven. Commercials can only get you so far. Mail can only get you far. You need to have people on the ground talking about you and why they care.

I was in theater school playing Lady Macbeth and doing these great dramatic parts, and then I got out into the real world and was auditioning for commercials, and just not getting to do anything that felt remotely meaningful.

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 started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did ‘Go,’ so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Before the Polaroid commercials, my image was that of a solid actress, a theater actress who could do anything. But the Polaroid commercials were high comedy… Through them I was finally noticed as a comedian.

When ‘Goodfellas’ is on TNT, and they’ve taken out all the curse words and put Tide commercials in the middle of it, I’ll still watch ‘Goodfellas’ because it’s that great of a movie.

It can sometimes feel like the commercials for Activision’s ‘Call of Duty’ series are always on. If the publisher has its way, the games will be, too.

My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can’t remember. I’ve just been blessed ever since.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle’s Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.

I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.

Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.

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.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

I did, like, 30 or 40 commercials before ‘Will & Grace’ where I was the straight husband. I had two spots on the Super Bowl in 1998 where I was the straight dude.

I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was ‘Bring It On: All or Nothing.’

And over the course of the last six years, as I’ve directed more features and commercials, I’ve become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.

I make commercials for a living; half of it gets thrown in the garbage, and I pitch TV; half of those shows get thrown in the garbage, so I essentially work for the garbage.

No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.

I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.

I come from music videos and commercials, where style is a big part of the whole world. I’ve always tried to add that to whatever I’m doing.

Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.

I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It’s always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.

I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn’t remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.

I’ve done commercials that Sam Mendes directed. Paul Feig directed me in a commercial.

When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term ‘cerebral palsy,’ I usually get one of two responses. They either think of a smiling, crumpled child in a wheelchair on a poster or commercials on late night TV with lawyers enticing parents of CP kids to sue the pants off their obstetrician.

I’ve been blessed with doing something I love and then at the same time, do introductions at World Series, Stanley Cup championships, NFL playoff games and a lot of commercials. No regrets at all.

Artistically I like to do short-term things. Like I do a lot of commercials, I have the Miller commercial out where I play the Devil in Hell, where Hell is frozen.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials. You’ll see black people in automobile ads, black women starring on their own television shows. We don’t see that on British television.

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 did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.

My first job was an AFI short film, ‘Chasing Daylight,’ when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

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.

Internet-centric companies have already begun changing the rules with binge-watching, flexible running times, fewer commercials, and crowd-sourced content. The brainpower – and just plain power – of the most valued tech firms will change things even more.

I think comedy is drama, often. It’s hard to have comedy over a period of time – commercials are one thing, but over a period of time – comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you’ve got to have some good stuff to listen to.

TV has made dancing less important. It used to be a real treat to go to the movies and see Fred Astaire dance. But now you see dancing every time you turn on the set. You see lines of girls on the variety shows – even girls dancing around a big box of cleaning powder for commercials.

I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

I have been fortunate that my commercials became famous and the best directors have managed to work on my terms. I didn’t have to chase anyone.

I think everybody, from whatever town they’re from, knows their hometown commercials.

In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I’ve done, initially, it’s very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there’s a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.

Philosophically, I don’t like doing commercials.

I was working in commercials and music videos, always with the goal of working in feature films.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

And I’ve always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand’s message into the writing process. It’s like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.

When I started to do work outside of surfing, commercials where I needed to lead, I came out of my shell more, and I realised I wanted to create an environment that’s fun because, a lot of time on shoots, people are so stressed and running behind the clock in an intense way.

You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they’ve got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

Here’s my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break.

In many ways, ‘Lords of Chaos’ is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other movies. I approached my other films like I did my music videos or commercials, like jobs. But ‘Lords of Chaos’ I wrote myself, and it’s a close, personal story.

Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it’s something you have to have live. As a result, we’re a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don’t get zapped out.

Thank you… preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

I grew up watching ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Knight Rider’ and Hot Wheels commercials. When I got to college, having never set foot in America, I knew more American pop-culture references than my friends did.

I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.

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

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.

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 started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did ‘Indio’ I and II, and that’s where it started.

I had started in the comedy world in a more traditional way. I was auditioning for TV, film, and commercials while I was making these Web videos from my house.

When I wrote ‘Pink Houses,’ nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can’t see the TV without hearing commercials with ‘Listen to the heartbeat of America,’ or ‘Born the American way.’ That whole America thing now – I hate it.

If you’re advertising on Facebook, the work you’re doing should be made better by being on Facebook. You can’t just be repurposing old TV commercials and hoping to get traction; that’s very primitive. The question, always, is, ‘How is this idea made better by this medium?’

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.

Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for a popular soap brand years ago. I was paid a huge amount of money for a mere 30 seconds of screen presence. After that, ads have been a regular feature in my career.

Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.

I was a fan of football. I was more of a Raiders fan, but I knew who O.J. was. I knew The Juice, and I remember the Hertz commercials with him running to the airport and whatnot. So he was a highbrow celebrity in my eyes.

It used to just be a SAG card, and then you got an AFTRA card. I got my AFTRA card doing a commercial in Atlanta. I got my SAG card doing a beer commercial from 100 years ago; it was one of the first national commercials with a family in it that was black and normal, and I played the daughter.

I’ve always said it’s easier for bands to make a hard stance – like, we don’t do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah – when you’ve sold billions of records. It’s super-easy to be righteous when you’re rich.

You see so many movies… the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there’s no sense of film grammar. There’s no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It’s just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

It’s scary for a 20-year-old to move to a city where she knows no one, but I did it and thankfully for me, I met the right people and got a whole lot of work in terms of commercials and music videos.

I love commercials.

The beauty of my job is I do all different kinds of film directing, not just surf films anymore. And I do stuff from commercials to short films to working on feature films, and none of it is based from where I live. It’s all based elsewhere, so I can live anywhere and commute to where I need to go.