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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. -- Dani Shapiro
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
People know elections, like television commercials, are not real. -- William Greider
You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials -- Steve Rifkind
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. -- David Ogilvy
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
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
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
It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards. -- Rocky Graziano
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
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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
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
I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. -- Stephen Moyer
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. -- Lee De Forest
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut. -- Donna Rice
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials. -- Parker Stevenson
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
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. -- Jack Gould
Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago. -- Jonathan Dee
I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff. -- Jon Hamm
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
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. -- John Hawkes
I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential. -- Kevin Harrington
When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday. -- Richard Lester
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
It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent. -- Tim Daly
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
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
The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS. -- Tony Verna
I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in. -- Scott Bakula
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials -- Parker Stevenson
I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it. -- Kofi Siriboe
I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising. -- Nicholas Negroponte
I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff -- Jon Hamm

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