Ben Feldman

“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.”

“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 despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.”

“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.”

“My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.”

“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.”

“I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“I was obsessed with Jack Nicholson. Like, I watched 'Prizzi's Honor' when I was, like, 11.”

“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.”

“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've been pretty lucky; I like my jobs.”

“I like ensemble shows.”

“I'm unconventionally romantic.”

“I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.”

“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.”

“For the beginning of my career, I was always playing people younger than me.”