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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.

Ben Feldman

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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Cost Dollar Years
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Cost Doing Nothing
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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Earth Fundamental Happens
If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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Problem Procedures
I’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
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Funny People People Rooms
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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Assets Attitude Earning
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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Actor Country Doubt Intimidated Walk
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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Reading Real Writing
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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New York Play Simple
No one ever died with too much money.
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Died Too Much
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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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.
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Careers People Thinking
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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Art Book People
I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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Experiment Fact Fantasy Fiction Knowledge Science
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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Know Lease
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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East People Reason

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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