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.
BEN FELDMANAnd I’m overcompensated for that. So it’s insane to not use that pedestal to try and at least help someone or something that’s in need.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you’re basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare where I feel like I need to play into it, then I find myself acting like the character in real life.
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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’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.
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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.
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Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.
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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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The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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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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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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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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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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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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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You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
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