I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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.
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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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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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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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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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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 think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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 biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.
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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 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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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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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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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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’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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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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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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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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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 think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I’m the least funny person in a room full of funny people.
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No one ever died with too much money.
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