I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison

I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since.
Tobey Maguire

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
Charles S. Dutton

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
Nicholas Sparks

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.
Bryan White

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.
John Fahey

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.
Lili Taylor

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.
Robin Wright Penn

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
Gavyn Davies

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
Missy Elliot

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.
Pauley Perrette

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
Ridley Scott

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
Richard Donner

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
Billy Sherwood

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
Marilyn Hacker

I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.
Susannah McCorkle

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.
Lydia Lunch

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
Poppy Z. Brite

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Mickey Spillane

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.
Roy Lichtenstein