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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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 FELDMANI’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
BEN FELDMANYour value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
BEN FELDMANYou haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
BEN FELDMANI 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.
BEN FELDMANMost people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
BEN FELDMANYoull 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 FELDMANI think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
BEN FELDMANThe key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
BEN FELDMANI’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
BEN FELDMANUnfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
BEN FELDMANI 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 FELDMANYour biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
BEN FELDMANIf 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.
BEN FELDMANWhen 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 FELDMANGoals 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.
BEN FELDMANI do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
BEN FELDMANI’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.
BEN FELDMANAnd 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.
BEN FELDMANIf you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
BEN FELDMANI 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 FELDMANIf 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 FELDMANYou are already broke and don’t even know it.
BEN FELDMANFundamentals 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!
BEN FELDMANWhen 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 FELDMANI never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
BEN FELDMANDoing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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