James Nesbitt Quotes

I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

There was a time when I never would have considered, ever, doing television commercials for records. I would never do that. That was something that you did for K-Mart.

Apart from films I've been shooting a lot of ads and signing on with a lot of brands as their primary endorser.

Being in adverts, it's a tricky thing, I suppose.

I'm uncomfortable doing commercials.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

I would like to do commercials, or even work for WWE if they called me. I wouldn't want to go back on the air or manage again, but I would like to be a spokesperson and do stuff like that.

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

I did a couple of American Express commercials.

Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records.

Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.

British podcasts tend to shamefacedly shuffle the ads towards the end. Americans put them up front and promote them enthusiastically. I think the Americans have it right.

If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.

I never want to be randomly posing with a product or putting my name to a brand arbitrarily.

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do anymore TV shows.