Fred Melamed Quotes

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 Have A Secret Aspiration To Be Considered For A Part Where It Doesn't Matter What You Look Like To Play It.

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.

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.

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.

The Word "hedonistic" To Me Means Pleasure Above All Else. My Pleasure Above All Else.

I Was Always Around People Who Were In The Business From The Time I Was An Absolute Baby. I Grew Up In New York City, And My Parents, My Sister, And I Had A House On Fire Island, And They Were Part Of A Set Of People That Were All Close And Friendly, Most Of Whom Were Involved In Show Business In One Regard Or Another. So It Was Always Familiar To Me, And I Kind Of Enjoyed It.

I Always Did Plays In School Because I Thought It Was Fun, But It Just Never Occurred To Me As A Thing To Do.

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.

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.

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.

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.