People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.
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I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.
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.
I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.
I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.
I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.
I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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