Commercials Quotes

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

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.

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

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

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.

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 remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

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