Top 499 Commercial Quotes

People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it’s done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

There’s a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it’s P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C.

‘Winner’ is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn’t hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There’s something that has always been difficult about that for me.

In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre by a female producer, Judy Craymer, and women – in particular, Donna Langley, president of production at Universal – were crucial in giving ‘Mamma Mia’ a home in Hollywood.

I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that’s a contradiction of who I believe I am given my absorption of the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I’ve been just like, ‘That’s not gonna make me happy.’

It’s high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell’s soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

I thought Ray Lewis was 6-6, 275 pounds, all muscle. I did a commercial with him before I even got drafted to the Baltimore Ravens. I was like, ‘Oh, you’re not that tall.’ But it’s just something about that guy.

Very few editors worry about heresy – their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

When I wrote ‘The Rozabal Line,’ I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed ‘The Rozabal Line’ as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.

I never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not the best way to get the most innovative work, because it’s about money and marketing. Although advertising is now embracing non-commercial people.

I’m responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven’t.

I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.

I wouldn’t want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won’t understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

I think it’s always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I’d be a developer of some kind – residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it’s a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

I’m a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days. I watched Hillary Clinton on the news the other day, and I got choked up by Hillary Clinton.

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since.

In the commercial theater, I’ve been pretty fortunate. The producers that I’ve worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

I’ve had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.

If you make a good film, then there’s no harm if it achieves commercial success.

I think there are readers out there and I don’t think the book is dead. And more importantly I don’t think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

I’m actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that’s not the impression you get with wine.

I’ve lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I’m glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

You have to be a little commercial, and that’s what I learnt over the years.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I’m more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don’t know.

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

‘Cabaret’ was the most commercial success that I’ve been involved in.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won’t settle for commercial reasons.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don’t believe in making art to make money.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn’t have any edge.

Converting Facebook data into money is harder than it sounds, mostly because the vast bulk of your user data is worthless. Turns out your blotto-drunk party pics and flirty co-worker messages have no commercial value whatsoever.

NASA should not be developing its own proprietary version of capabilities it could purchase commercially at much lower cost, especially when we know the agency’s bureaucratic tendencies will be to view the commercial versions as competitors to kill.

You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.

In practice, I’ve had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria’s Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident – that made me feel very comfortable.

Once in a while, I need to go out of my way to do different films, to exploit all commercial angles to cater to the masses.

You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.