When you walk out, the money walks in
BEN FELDMANI think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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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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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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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No one ever died with too much money.
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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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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 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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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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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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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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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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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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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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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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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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Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.
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And I’m overcompensated for that. So it’s insane to not use that pedestal to try and at least help someone or something that’s in need.
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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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Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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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.
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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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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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I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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