Ad Quotes

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.

A good ad which is not run never produces sales.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.