Fred Melamed

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas,…

— Fred Melamed

In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff,…

— Fred Melamed

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

— Fred Melamed

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to…

— Fred Melamed

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

— Fred Melamed

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…

— Fred Melamed

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

— Fred Melamed

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

— Fred Melamed

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

— Fred Melamed

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

— Fred Melamed

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties…

— Fred Melamed

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is…

— Fred Melamed

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can…

— Fred Melamed

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

— Fred Melamed

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

I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in…

— Fred Melamed

Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want…

— Fred Melamed

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows…

— Fred Melamed

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking,…

— Fred Melamed

The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select…

— Fred Melamed

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…

— Fred Melamed

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about…

— Fred Melamed