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.
