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If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Ben Feldman

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
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
Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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Great Inspirational Motivational Sales
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 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
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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Looks Mad Men
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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Big Hard Thinking Work
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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Assets Attitude Earning
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
I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Jobs Lucky Pretty
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
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
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
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
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
You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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Already Broke Know
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
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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Cash Life Purpose
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
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
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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Cash Men Problem
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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Careers People Thinking
When you walk out, the money walks in
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Desire Money Walks
Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.
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Know Lease
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
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Assets Attitude Earning
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

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