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I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.

Ben Feldman

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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Apart Company Seldom Switchboard
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
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
I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Guy People Thinking
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Cost Doing Nothing
You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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Already Broke Know
You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
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Anything Done Wrong
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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Actor Love Taste
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
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
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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Available Jobs Percent
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
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.
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Let Me Problem Walks
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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Home Makeup Morning
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.
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Answer Thinking Together
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Assets Attitude Earning

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