One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'
I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
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.
I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.
I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.
Wisdom of the Ages "Car Commercials" One of the last times you're ever gonna see that overpriced s-box not stuck in a traffic jam.
If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.
As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial.
I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.
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.
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control o...
