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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.

Ben Feldman

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 FELDMAN

Actor Country Doubt Intimidated Walk
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
BEN FELDMAN

Cost Dollar Years
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Home Makeup Morning
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Doe Doors People
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 FELDMAN

New York Play Simple
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?
BEN FELDMAN

May Problem Uncles
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Careers People Thinking
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Careers People Thinking
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Available Jobs Percent
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Answer Thinking Together
If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
BEN FELDMAN

Problem Procedures
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Let Me Problem Walks
Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.
BEN FELDMAN

Know Lease
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
BEN FELDMAN

Cash Life Purpose
No one ever died with too much money.
BEN FELDMAN

Died Too Much
I’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
BEN FELDMAN

Funny People People Rooms

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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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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