Advertising quotes

“You can fool all the people all the time if the advice is right and the budget is big enough.”
Joseph Edward Levine

“- Meryl Burbank: Why don't you let me fix you some of this Mococoa drink? All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners.
- Truman Burbank: What the hell are you talking about? Who are you talking to?
- Meryl Burbank: I've tasted other cocoas. This is the best.”

Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank
Laura Linney - Meryl Burbank

“It doesn't matter whether you're selling Jesus or Buddha or civil rights or 'How to Make Money in Real Estate With No Money Down'. That doesn't make you a human being; it makes you a marketing rep. If you want to talk to somebody honestly, as a human being, ask him about his kids. Find out what his dreams are - just to find out, for no other...” (continue)(continue reading)
Danny DeVito - Phil Cooper

“Jane, you ignorant slut.”

Dan Aykroyd

“- Haymitch Abernathy: Now, I can sell the star-crossed lovers from District 12.
- Katniss Everdeen: We are not star-crossed lovers.
- Haymitch Abernathy: It's a television show, and being in love with that boy might just get you sponsors which could save your damn life.”

Woody Harrelson - Haymitch Abernathy
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen

“Life is an endless series of trainwrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness.”
Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool

“- Barry B. Benson: What is that?
- Ken: Italian Vogue.
- Barry B. Benson: Mamma mia! That's a lot of pages.
- Ken: It's a lot of ads.”
Jerry Seinfeld - Barry B. Benson
Patrick Warburton - Ken

“Think about the way food is marketed. T-shirts, coupons, toys for children, giveaways in fast-food places, placemats. I mean just all of the different ways in which food marketing is ubiquitous. The most heavily advertised foods are consumed the most. No surprise.”
Marion Nestle - Herself

“- Woman on radio: The choice is clear. The Arion 620, the American-made car for American-made drivers.
- Bob Cody: That's a lie. Arion engines are made in Japan.
- Man on radio: Kill Signal, the movie everyone's talking about, from Weber Films.
- Bob Cody: That's another lie. We're not talking about it.
- Another man on radio: We're the U.S....” (continue)(continue reading)

Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.”
Brad Pitt - Tyler Durden

“They're war slogans. We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the fucking wars. You know why? That's show business. Naked girl covered in Napalm. 'V for Victory'. Five Marines raising the flag. You remember the picture 50 years from now, you'll have forgotten the war. The Gulf War, smart bomb falling down a chimney. 2500 missions a day,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“- Sarah: [gesturing her body in a sexy behavior] Devonshire cream: the creamiest cream.
- Mark: They paid you for that?
- Sarah: It's not so easy. You try it with a camera in your face, and a cow sniffing around your bum.”
Rachel Fowler - Sarah
Devon Sawa - Mark

“The miles will fly and your children won't cry, if you play car bingo.”
John Travolta - Michael

“You look marvelous.”

Billy Crystal

I don't belong to the "God Is Alive And Hiding In Argentina" club, but I believe in the devil, all right. You know why? Because the prick keeps doing commercials!
Scott Wilson - Capt. Billy Cutshaw

“In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.”
Cary Grant - Roger Thornhill

“This is telemarketing. We're not mapping the fucking human genome here. I don't care if you have experience for this. I'll hire damn near anyone.”
Robert Longstreet - Anderson

“When you can't trust the lawyers and the advertising men, what the hell's America coming to, huh?”
Frances McDormand - Mildred

“- Jenny Lind: You are the American. I believe I might have heard of you.
- P.T. Barnum: Oh well, If you've heard of me all the way over here, I must have been doing something right.
- Jenny Lind: That, or something very wrong.
- P.T. Barnum: In the world of publicity there is hardly any difference.”
Rebecca Ferguson - Jenny Lind
Hugh Jackman - P.T. Barnum

- Miles Miller: [to Father Flynn] This is not a place for a priest, Father. You shouldn't be here.
- Laramie Seymour Sullivan: We might need to work on your sales pitch, son. "The El Royale: no place for a priest."
Lewis Pullman - Miles Miller
Jon Hamm - Laramie Seymour Sullivan

“- Nick Fury: It's a S.H.I.E.L.D. logo.
- Carol Danvers: Does announcing your identity with branded clothing, help with the covert part of the job?
- Nick Fury: ... said the space soldier who's wearing a rubber suit.”

Brie Larson - Carol Danvers
Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury

“That man is so oily, you could fry chicken on his smile.”

Jenifer Lewis - Margueritte Coleman

“Life's a little bit more complicated than a slogan on a bumper sticker. Real life is messy.”
Ginnifer Goodwin - Judy Hopps

“Ordeal by comment card, known otherwise as death by a thousand cuts.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“- Kermit the Frog: Why don't you try something like: Ocean Breeze Soap will get you clean.
- Jill the Frog: You mean just say what the product does?
- Gil the Frog: No one's ever tried that before.”
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog
Kathryn Mullen - Jill the Frog
Steve Whitmire - Gill the Frog