Fred Melamed Quotes

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.