Television Commercials Quotes

• Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

  Charlie Ergen

  Mean, Kids, Choices

  "Dish's Charlie Ergen Suggests AutoHop Shields Kids from Junk Food Ads" by Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Reality, Thinking, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Kids, Self, Hype

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• Here's an idea: eat like an adult.
  
  Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods, and ease up on the snacking. And don't act like you don't know this: eat more vegetables and fruits.
  
  Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.

  Dan John

  Sweet, Growing Up, Kids

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• The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

  David Letterman

  Running, Campaigns, Election

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials - that's actually how I put myself through NYU and through college.

  Tom Ford

  Kids, College, Nyu

  Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com. December 11, 2009.

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• The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

  David Fincher

  Opportunity, Actors, Doing Good

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mom, Play, Actresses

  "New Again: Lenny Kravitz". Interview with Carly Wolkoff, Rick Rubin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2012.

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• People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

  William Greider

  Real, People, Election

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

  Steve Rifkind

  America, Insulting, Radio

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• You can't just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in your face. No one would ever think it was a good idea to use a print ad for a television commercial, or confuse a banner ad for a radio spot. Like their traditional media platform cousins, every social media platform has its own language.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Cousin, Thinking, Media

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  New York, Successful, Careers

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• At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Firsts, Ninth Grade, Grades

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• The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)

  Neil Postman

  Character, Consumers, Consumed

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• But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

  Nancy Werlin

  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

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• Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Hate, Hair

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

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• The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.

  Dalton Camp

  Party, Successful, Winning

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• There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

  David Ogilvy

  Humorous, Presidential, Election

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• I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

  Dani Shapiro

  Kids, Adults, Used

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• And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

  Sela Ward

  Money, Jobs, Firsts

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• I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Art, Years

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• Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, Engineering, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

  Edwin Newman

  Sound, Accents, Feels

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Television, Millions

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks at a "Humor and the Presidency Symposium" at Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as quoted in US Weekly Magazine, November 3, 1986.

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