I’m a lot happier in people’s living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.
BEN FELDMANFundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to see if I do go.
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Your value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.
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Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
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Besides, switchboard girls and secretaries have become very good. They’ve learned to take you apart. ‘Who? Why? What for? What company?’ You don’t always get by. I seldom call on the phone. I’d rather go.
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I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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If you’re starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there’s nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van Gogh as a sign that people still read their history books and care about art.
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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!
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I get up in the morning and I put on makeup and then I say somebody else’s words in someone else’s clothes, and then I go home and watch TV, have a glass of whisky and go to bed.
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