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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.

Ben Feldman

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

Reading Real Writing
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Art Book People
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?
BEN FELDMAN

Life Men World
Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
BEN FELDMAN

Men might Needs
I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
BEN FELDMAN

Experiment Fact Fantasy Fiction Knowledge Science
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Looks Mad Men
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.
BEN FELDMAN

East People Reason
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Cash Men Problem
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
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
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
Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
BEN FELDMAN

Permanent Problem Term
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
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
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Blood Camera Fake
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

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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