Fred Melamed famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Children #Believe #Two
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 #Kids #Men
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

#Islands #Eight #Acting
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

#Play #Secret #Looks
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

#Years #Ham #Pancakes
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 #Moving #Character
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

#Boys #Years #Giving
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 #Wish #World
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

#Long #Stage #Plans
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

#Ignorant #Adherence #Judaism
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

#Strong #Keeping Your Mouth Shut #Feelings
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

#Running #Eight #Long

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