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Advertising is the life of trade.

It's really difficult to maintain a credible career as you jump from age group to age group and suddenly you're not the flavor of the month anymore; you're not in demand.

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

When I started in the business years ago, people would always say, 'You better get as much work as you can now, because once you get over 40, it's over.'

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.