Top 152 Gimmick Quotes & Sayings

Look at 'Bonanza.' If you rely on a gimmick or one big star, you've got a problem.

Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

You got to have a gimmick in this got-to-have-a-gimmick world.

That's how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.

You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks.

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!

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

I did have a constituent four or five years ago - she never liked me. So, she called, I returned her call, and she was complaining about something, and she said: 'And why do you always use green? I think it's narcissistic.' And I said, 'Well, ma'am, everyone has to have a gimmick, and that's my gimmick.'

It wasn't like I just woke up and said, 'Here's my gimmick; I'll wear a hat and put something weird on it.'

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

In Sheikie's day, we wrestle. We not use gimmick like the table chair.

For me, I was really struggling because I was Scott Hall in the gym and Scott Hall in the grocery store and in the ring. Until I got a gimmick, a look, and got to be a character, that's when I started making strides. As Scott Hall, I didn't have a gimmick, so I didn't know what to do.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Television is not a gimmick.

A gimmick would be something you'd do to attract attention or to bring fame and fortune.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

With The Brood, it was cool because it had the music, it had the different look and at the time reality-based characters were really starting to take the forefront as opposed to the cartoon character stuff that you'd seen in the past. We were already into the Attitude era. It was kind of a gimmick, but it was a cool gimmick. It wasn't corny.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.

Luther Vandross was doing fine, but he said, "Man, I want to do my own project." So he got us all to do a demo, and that demo was "Never Too Much." It took him a year and a half to get signed, because he didn't have a gimmick. The record companies were looking for his gimmick. They said, "What's your gimmick?" He said, "I sing. That's my gimmick." Anyway, he finally got signed and the record was released, and the rest was history.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Action should always be about character and story, not a gimmick.

That's all it takes in life to win a woman over - a good gimmick.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

The Brodus Clay have gimmick good for the kids and make the people happy.

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house.

Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

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.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.

I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

When it comes to the golf industry, I know that people see me as a gimmick.

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

Valentine's day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

A song cannot be a gimmick as it requires talent and hard work. But if it is placed wrongly, then it can be called that way.

When I got the name 'The Franchise,' the gimmick, and turned it into what it became, I put my heart and soul into that.

I'll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

Honestly, I just want to wrestle! Like, I don't need to be in these crazy gimmick matches or always be working for the championship.

Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

You gotta have a gimmick.

The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.