Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Ben Feldman
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
For the beginning of my career, I was always playing people younger than me.
My first job ever was at Baskin-Robbins when I was 14, which is probably the closest I'll ever come to having a corporate job like the one I play on TV - although I do work for Universal, so I suppose that's corporate.
I certainly don't know a lot of anti-Semitic people, but I've got plenty of friends that have a whole bunch of Jew jokes up their sleeve, and every time it's relevant, it will come up.
I never went online when I was single, aside from flirting with people on MySpace when that was relevant.
I like ensemble shows.
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.
I do tons of feminine things.
Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago.
My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'
Tinder's fascinating to me. I wish it was around when I was single and not on television because I can't imagine doing it when you're on TV.
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. 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.
I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.
Often, American audiences are underestimated by producers and movie studios. They often think we're dumber than we are.
We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.
Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.
I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.
'Mindy' was fun. Other than 'Superstore,' it was the other time I played an elitist, obnoxious idiot.
I was a weird kid.
With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting.
I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.
I think anybody's who's ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance of the history and the ghosts you're surrounded by every day.
I've been pretty lucky; I like my jobs.
The institution of marriage has been something that - we have a very temperamental relationship, marriage and I. I've seen a lot of not great examples of it.
I live in Los Angeles, which is the youngest place - there's no history to Los Angeles. Everything's fake.
Every single cast has a couple bad eggs, or that person that everyone is making fun of or doesn't like.
I'm unconventionally romantic.
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.
I was obsessed with Jack Nicholson. Like, I watched 'Prizzi's Honor' when I was, like, 11.
My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants.
I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.
Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.
Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
It's funny: I don't get to play characters where I wear what I want to wear. With 'Mad Men,' if Janie Bryant doesn't laugh at me, then that outfit doesn't make it to air.
I never got on the 'Stranger Things' train. Everybody else did, but for me, I'm the wrong audience because I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.
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.
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?
You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?
I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to see if I do go. 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.
Your value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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.
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.
No one ever died with too much money.
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.
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.
You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
When you walk out, the money walks in
Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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!
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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