Marc Maron Quotes

I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.

My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.

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

I never really saw myself doing a Super Bowl promo.

I think of all media, television is the most powerful when it comes to selling books, because when you have a feature film, yeah, there's a rush. But then after that month is over and the movie goes out of release, that's it.

Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

Television is a huge medium and the best way to popularize yourself.

Advertising has always been part show biz.

I did the commercials for Gillette during the World Series and at one point I had 27 different beer contracts.

I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don't eat Wheaties, so I can't do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I'd take it right away. Apple Jacks, I'd be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.

Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

The endorsement game has been very good to me.

I love commercials.

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.

I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved—commitment to a scenario.

So long as cameras are there, confirmations will be drawn-out photo opportunities.

Children's television has been grossly over-commercialized. The subtle message is, "Buy me! Buy me!

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements