I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn’t make sense to me.
BEN FELDMANThe key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, “Are you from the East Coast?” people just go, “you’re from the East Coast, right?”, having no reason to have known that. I don’t know what that is. Maybe it’s just that I’m Jewish.
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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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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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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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No one ever died with too much money.
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Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.
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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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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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Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It’s read and study. And think about what you’re studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask ‘why?’ And know the answers.
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You know, a man’s life is the most precious thing in the world, isn’t it? So isn’t it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?
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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn’t need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don’t understand.
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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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I don’t like horror, which is ridiculous because I’ve been in three horror movies, but when I see those things, I see camera tricks and fake blood and actors screaming and I don’t know understand why other actors don’t see that.
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I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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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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When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It’s sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple.
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Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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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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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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The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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