Fred Melamed Professions : Actor Born : May 13, 1956 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Fred Melamed 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. Fred Melamed two believe children Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.' Fred Melamed character men kids 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. Fred Melamed ham pancakes years The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal. Fred Melamed voice country thinking 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. Fred Melamed christmas boys years I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life. Fred Melamed eight acting islands I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it. Fred Melamed secret matter play The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else. Fred Melamed hedonistic pleasure mean 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. Fred Melamed real character moving 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. Fred Melamed knowing agreement wish 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. Fred Melamed plans stage long It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star. Fred Melamed film three stars I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals. Fred Melamed judaism adherence ignorant I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish. Fred Melamed keeping-your-mouth-shut jewish-tradition strong 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. Fred Melamed eight running long I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her. Fred Melamed mets 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. Fred Melamed careers acting long 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. Fred Melamed universal sometimes world 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. Fred Melamed typical character people I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do. Fred Melamed play fun school Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
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