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.
BEN FELDMANI 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.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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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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 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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If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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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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Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in… unless you let me take your problems with me.
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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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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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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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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You’ve got a problem. Part of what you own isn’t yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?
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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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Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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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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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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