The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
BEN FELDMANEvery 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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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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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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I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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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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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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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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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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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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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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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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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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