"Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared……" — Fred Melamed
"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."
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Fred Melamed
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12 Quotes by Fred Melamed
Fred Melamed has 12 quotes on this site.
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I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut.…
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I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because…
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I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so,…
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We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we…
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Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah…
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I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way…
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It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up…
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I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to…
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I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding…
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Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who…
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I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a…
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how…
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I acted in millions of TV shows.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
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I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake…
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it…
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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