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.
BEN FELDMANI 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.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before ‘Mad Men’ explored that area of advertising.
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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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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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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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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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