Top 66 Gimmick Quotes

There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it’s largely true. And it’s largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it’s terrible.

We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house.

A gimmick would be something you’d do to attract attention or to bring fame and fortune.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Valentine’s day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me.

You don’t want to be a gimmick. You don’t want to be a set piece, where people go, ‘Hey, that’s weird.’

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

I was sort of like a scout for Eric Bischoff if I saw people who had the talent. Sometimes I wouldn’t bring people to him until they had the gimmick, like Raven.

For me, I was really struggling because I was Scott Hall in the gym and Scott Hall in the grocery store and in the ring. Until I got a gimmick, a look, and got to be a character, that’s when I started making strides. As Scott Hall, I didn’t have a gimmick, so I didn’t know what to do.

Rap is a gimmick, but I’m for the hip-hop, the culture.

‘Eclipse’ is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn’t a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: ‘When does Concept morph into Gimmick?’

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it – mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction – I don’t know if I want to do that anymore.

I didn’t want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn’t want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn’t want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with ‘The Jazz Singer’ or the first colour or surround sound – it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

I speak a little Italian and Spanish because of where I grew up. I also am well-versed in Angelino slang and corporate Euro-speak. I don’t like gimmicks. The biggest gimmick of all is trying to fit in and be ‘normal’. I will always be myself no matter what. Crazy is a compliment. Flashback.

I got offered to do an OTT film with Nawazuddin Siddiqui two years ago that I was uncomfortable doing because it had a nude scene. I was asked why I can’t do it again if I did it before, many didn’t realize I’ve actually never gone nude for ‘Ice Cream,’ it was just a publicity gimmick.

Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They’re somewhat trendy, or they have some sort of gimmick, or they’re somewhat expensive. And they make a lot of money off drinks. I tell people don’t go to most of them, unless your goal is just to socialize.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

The Brodus Clay have gimmick good for the kids and make the people happy.

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

That’s how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.

Action should always be about character and story, not a gimmick.

One match that really sticks out for me, there’s a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn’t have a gimmick name; I didn’t have a gimmick finish.

I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele’s not having gimmicks her gimmick? It’s hard to say, isn’t it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that’s great about them.

I don’t make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that ‘Pi’ was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn’t have to do huge scale.

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don’t need a gimmick; it’s just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

Anyone who’s been in the WWE for an extended period of time has to be able to do different things. Eventually, a character gimmick is going to get old and stale. And, when it does, if that’s all you can do, you’re done.

When I got the name ‘The Franchise,’ the gimmick, and turned it into what it became, I put my heart and soul into that.

Dusty Rhodes play good-man gimmick. He party with me long, long time in the Florida.

That’s all it takes in life to win a woman over – a good gimmick.

It’s real simple – we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It’s universal.

I didn’t want to put out ‘The Unseen’ because I thought I would be criticized. I thought everyone would think the sped-up vocals were a gimmick. I had to be convinced to put it out.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won’t be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

I don’t feel like I’m a character; I certainly don’t feel like I’m a gimmick. I am who I am.

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Honestly, I just want to wrestle! Like, I don’t need to be in these crazy gimmick matches or always be working for the championship.

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like ‘green’ nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

I’d like to think I wouldn’t get booed off stage if I chose not to wear the head – I did gigs prior to having the head made and never had any problems. I’m aware though that, as a gimmick, it can create its own little monster as a brand.

My direction has never really changed, because I don’t think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don’t need a gimmick when you have that.

In Obama’s case, we’ve enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation’s highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have ‘the first African-American president.’

I had no regret to the ‘cuchi-cuchi’ show. It showed me the way to the bank. It’s a gimmick. It’s fun. It has nothing to do with sex… it’s energy and fun… If it wasn’t for ‘cuchi-cuchi,’ I would be selling tomatoes in Tijuana.

Look at ‘Bonanza.’ If you rely on a gimmick or one big star, you’ve got a problem.

You got to have a gimmick in this got-to-have-a-gimmick world.

I’m excited to help people get healthier and be happier with eTone Fitness. It’s been a lifesaver. I’m able to get my sweat on, have a live coach train me and get results from home. Not a gimmick, it works!

I’ll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.

We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.

I think ECW itself was a gimmick. I think getting the audience to chant ECW was really something. I don’t care if you draw 70,000 people in a dome for Wrestlemania – nobody chants WWE.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn’t work. It comes down to talent.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It’s very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

It’s very rare to have a patient who isn’t absolutely delighted when you say, ‘I read your feedback. The session didn’t go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.’ If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it’s a wonderful thing.

The studio didn’t ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

You gotta have a gimmick.

I don’t see us as a big media gimmick band. We don’t have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.

Television is not a gimmick.

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‘thing.’ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

In a weird way, ‘Veronica Mars’ was my reaction to ‘Freaks and Geeks’ because ‘Freaks and Geeks’ was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn’t have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick – no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

No matter how skillful you are, you can’t invent a product advantage that doesn’t exist. And if you do, and it’s just a gimmick, it’s going to fall apart anyway.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?