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 FELDMANI’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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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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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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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You’ve got a problem. Part of what you own isn’t yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?
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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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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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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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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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The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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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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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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