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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.
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Actor Country Doubt Intimidated Walk
I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Jobs Lucky Pretty
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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Depends People Values
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
Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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Believe People Person Sales
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 think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Guy People Thinking
The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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Disturbing Interview Keys
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
Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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Careers Leading Me Rooms
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.
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Blood Camera Fake
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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Assets Attitude Earning
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.
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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.
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New York Play Simple
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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Encouragement Goal Running
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
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
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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Help Leas Need Someone Something
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 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
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
You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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Already Broke Know
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
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
I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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Country Forever Live
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Cost Doing Nothing

If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.

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