Welcome to the world of commercials, where creativity meets persuasion in the most captivating ways. Commercials have become an integral part of our daily lives, bombarding us with messages ranging from the mundane to the extraordinary. Whether it’s a catchy jingle that sticks in your head for days or a visually stunning advertisement that leaves you in awe, commercials have a unique power to influence our thoughts, emotions, and purchasing decisions.
Throughout the years, advertisers have mastered the art of storytelling, using commercials as a platform to convey powerful messages in a short span of time. From heartwarming narratives that tug at our heartstrings to humorous sketches that leave us in stitches, commercials have the ability to evoke a wide range of emotions. They serve as a window into the cultural zeitgeist, reflecting the values, trends, and aspirations of society at large.
Below, you’ll find a collection of quotes that encapsulate the essence of commercials. These quotes can serve as inspiration for your own creative endeavors, whether you’re designing an advertisement, crafting a marketing campaign, or simply seeking a dose of insight and inspiration. So feel free to explore, and may these quotes ignite your imagination and fuel your creativity.
I honestly don’t even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions. Bailee Madison
Politics is gut; commercials are gut. Frank Luntz
I’ve come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I’ve designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I’ve done conceptual art pictures. Tony Kaye
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. Alfred Hitchcock
I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five – this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16… but before that I had done a play on Broadway. Danny Masterson
That’s why I’ve always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials. Richard Roeper
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn’t like selling products I didn’t believe in. River Phoenix
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, ’cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you’re always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials. Dan Savage
I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials. Trevor Dunn
Most interracial commercials on TV are produced to provide white Americans with a sense of comfort that in the face of changing power structures and demographics they will still dominate the racial pecking order. Jason Johnson
TIVO executives stand up and say, ‘Well, we’re not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.’ I mean, please. Dick Wolf
My first projects were mostly European commercials and music videos. Bonnie Aarons
I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, ‘Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.’ I’m like, ‘Nah, nah, music’s my thing.’ I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun. Jacob Latimore
The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that’s not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That’s the reality of it. Jimmy Kimmel
Just look at the messages today’s media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it’s getting really bad. Evan Rachel Wood
I have a different relationship with Chucky because he’s been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I’ve been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I’m like, ‘Aww! It’s my Chucky!’ Fiona Dourif
I did a lot of commercials starting in about ’75, yeah. Well, not ‘a lot’; I never was a big old commercial gal, but I made a good living. I didn’t immediately make ‘a living’ at commercials; the first year I made maybe a living was about ’80. I had a great year in ’85. I had a nice little supplement. Margo Martindale
I’ve done several commercials and I’ve done voiceovers for documentaries. Jeff Bridges
I walked in thinking, ‘I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?’ I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny. Orlando Jones
My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can’t remember. I’ve just been blessed ever since. Bailee Madison
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government. Alfonso Cuaron
Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show. Andrew Shaffer
When I wrote ‘Pink Houses,’ nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can’t see the TV without hearing commercials with ‘Listen to the heartbeat of America,’ or ‘Born the American way.’ That whole America thing now – I hate it. John Mellencamp
The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials. Carrot Top
I’ve always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials… I’d say things like, ‘Hi, Marge, how’s your laundry?’ and ‘Hi, I’m a real nice Georgia peach.’ Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress. Teri Garr
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints – they’re equally satisfying, but in different ways. Tony Scott
The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials! Joan Ganz Cooney
I cry at anything remotely touching – smile at me warmly and I’m off… television also does it, everything from ‘X-Factor’ to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh. Natalie Massenet
Good work is good work wherever it’s done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials. Parker Stevenson
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the ’60s and ’70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death. Tom Shales
I started as a teenager going up on commercials. Fran Drescher
I’ve always said it’s easier for bands to make a hard stance – like, we don’t do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah – when you’ve sold billions of records. It’s super-easy to be righteous when you’re rich. Brian Fallon
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. Aaron Eckhart
And I’ve always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand’s message into the writing process. It’s like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. Jason Bateman
Before the Polaroid commercials, my image was that of a solid actress, a theater actress who could do anything. But the Polaroid commercials were high comedy… Through them I was finally noticed as a comedian. Mariette Hartley
The NFL and NBA has done a better job than we have in showing the fun side of the sport, having people talk about it whether it’s on social media, commercials or the news. Ken Griffey Jr.
I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson. Ricky Schroder
I don’t feel as though I’ve graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren’t compartmentalised. Jonathan Glazer
I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows. Malin Akerman
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos. Alex Winter
I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present. Thayer David
Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials. David Zucker
It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too. Jason Mewes
You can’t watch ‘Dr. Strangelove’ with commercials. That would be sacrilegious. Les Claypool
I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did ‘Indio’ I and II, and that’s where it started. Marvin Hagler
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. Dick Wolf
A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing. Brian Austin Green
I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle’s Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny. Adam West
And that’s what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed. Patrick Macnee
If you’re advertising on Facebook, the work you’re doing should be made better by being on Facebook. You can’t just be repurposing old TV commercials and hoping to get traction; that’s very primitive. The question, always, is, ‘How is this idea made better by this medium?’ David Droga
I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. Helen Reddy
A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials. Lee Pace
I love Victoria’s Secret and the brand, and I’m passionate about Victoria’s Secret commercials, too. Adriana Lima
So way back, Jonathan and I were – we were entertainers as kids. We were actors; we did theater, musicals; we ended up getting into commercials and some TV spots. Actually, one of our jobs, we were clowns. Drew Scott
I loved doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for free. Henry Winkler
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there’s my personal favorite, the male ego. Roseanne Barr
I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies. Melania Trump
It’s, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series. Yvonne Strahovski
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. Hailee Steinfeld
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs. Matthew Lesko
When I first auditioned for ‘Stranger Things,’ I was just living in Chicago. Just looking for a job. Working at a restaurant, doing commercials and bit parts on shows. I honestly would have been happy booking anything. Joe Keery
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the ’50s. Dan Aykroyd
Cinema is not about format, and it’s not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I’ve seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I’ve seen Oscar-winning movies that don’t. I’m fine with this. Steven Soderbergh
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. Peter Bogdanovich
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials. Robert McChesney
Prior to ‘The Karate Kid’, I did commercials – Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk – and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy. William Zabka
On a film, you work with somebody for four months and it’s wonderful, but commercials it’s like catching up with someone for a beer except you happen to shoot something at the same time. Greig Fraser
Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out. Mark Ruffalo
I actually didn’t grow up watching ‘Degrassi,’ but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn’t realize that Drake was the guy from ‘Degrassi.’ I had to piece it together and go, ‘Oh! He’s Aubrey Graham.’ Alessia Cara
I don’t want to sound conceited, but people were intrigued with me and thought I was crazy and the word got around about this wacky disc jockey who could do 10 commercials in 10 minutes – what I did was make fun of the commercials. Bob Crane
It’s been amazing, the number of commercials that I’ve done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000. Casey Kasem
At the time of Polaroid – and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff – at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing. Jim Henson
My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work. Raven Goodwin
I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and the show ‘The Unit.’ Got a little part in the movie ‘Redbelt’ by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether. Jake Johnson
I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials. Robby Krieger
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. David Attenborough
Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife’s hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.’ My kids almost had shirts made up that said, ‘Teri Hatcher is not my mom.’ Howie Long
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there’s programming going on. It’s as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. Douglas Rushkoff
In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It’s becoming more of a norm. Mark Roberts
I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth. Max Lucado
I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I’d get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things. Cheryl Ladd
I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don’t impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling. Paul Arden
I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened. Mackenzie Foy
I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials. Gabriela Sabatini
I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards. Carrot Top
I did commercials since I was 16, and that’s kind of acting, depending on what you’re selling. Joan Severance
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. John O’Toole
When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies. David Slade
I started acting, when I was 15, in commercials and guest roles. I was definitely a working actor, so I was thankful for that. But I never had to work at a store, although I would have liked to. Evan Peters
Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasn’t that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly. Christian McKay
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. Marshall McLuhan
The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don’t get to try out as an actor. Milana Vayntrub
I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you’d typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn’t the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn’t cutesy. Kristen Stewart
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they’ll start selling pop-up commercials, too. Tom Shales
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. Joan Van Ark
I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten. Ian Somerhalder
TV has made dancing less important. It used to be a real treat to go to the movies and see Fred Astaire dance. But now you see dancing every time you turn on the set. You see lines of girls on the variety shows – even girls dancing around a big box of cleaning powder for commercials. Cyd Charisse
I get offered to do stuff where the money’s nice but it’s not something I want to do – I get offered a lot of commercials too. Spike Lee
I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn’t get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. Norman Lear
Even one’s own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about one’s home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment – we’re living inside commercials. J. G. Ballard
