"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."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Fred Melamed

#Character Quotes #Kids Quotes #Men Quotes

“Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!”
“Whatever you say about Fergus McCann, if this [Celtic Park] is the legacy, then I am absolutely delighted with it.”
“Nobody can put more pressure on me than I do.”
“Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”
“Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.”

Source : Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.17, Macmillan
“It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.”
“I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.”
“You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.”

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