Quotes and Sayings About Gimmicks
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Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
-- Alan Ladd -
I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.
-- Billy Eckstine -
I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
-- Drake -
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
-- Farley Mowat -
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
-- Ferdinand Porsche -
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
-- Hedy Lamarr -
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
-- Iggy Pop -
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.
-- J. Michael Straczynski -
I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.
-- Lou Thesz -
The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul
-- Mark Dever -
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
-- Method Man -
Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?
-- Paul Feig -
February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
-- Randeep Hooda -
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
-- Richard Simmons -
You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all,
-- Terrell Suggs -
I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.
-- Tiffanie DeBartolo -
Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.
-- Tom Colicchio -
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.
-- Tom Verlaine -
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
-- Whitney Houston -
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.
-- Willard Scott -
No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.
-- William Bernbach -
Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.
-- Erving Polster -
The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version. It's not a gimmick. It actually improves the viewing experience, but the movie stands on its own.
-- Louis Leterrier
