The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.

I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

I did the commercials for Gillette during the World Series and at one point I had 27 different beer contracts.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

I would like to have the best of both worlds and still enjoy doing fashion shows and shooting for commercials.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

I've been at this a long time, but commercials are what hit for me. Casting directors watch those commercials.

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

I auditioned for everything. It was daily, relentless. Independent films, chewing gum commercials, television shows.

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

When I was little, I didn't even know what acting was. But I was in commercials - baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.

I used to do commercial acting. I've been in Lunchables commercials, Honda commercials, Blue Diamond Almonds commercials.

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

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

I'm just here to play baseball. I'm not going to be on social media or doing any commercials. I'm just here to do my job.

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.

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.

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.

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.

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

I made a movie in Morocco. I made a movie in Brazil. I've made commercials all over the world. Every set looks like another set.

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.

I can't say I'm a huge sports fan, so I usually watch the game for the commercials, and I go to Super Bowl parties for the snacks.

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

I made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.

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