Gimmick Quotes

54 Gimmick quotes by 52 unique authors

When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes… — Tony D'Souza
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch. — J. Michael Straczynski
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to… — John F. Kerry
John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to… — Steve Schmidt
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick. — Farley Mowat
I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the… — Hulk Hogan
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? — Whitney Houston
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick… — Penn Jillette
I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time. — Mindy Kaling
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… — Hedy Lamarr
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. — Method Man
Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick. — Marilyn Manson
The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't… — Sylvester Stallone
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money! — Duke Ellington
All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited… — Unknown Author
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his… — Michael Heizer
There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick. — Bruce Dickinson
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act. — Willard Scott
The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal. — James Howard Kunstler
You gotta have a gimmick. — Ethel Merman
Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events… — Hulk Hogan
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. — Tommy Chong
We aren't hiding behind these masks, we're actually revealing more to you than you might think. The mask I wear brings out all the sh*t… — Corey Taylor
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran… — Jackie Cooper

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