34 Quotes by 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 more universal it is.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'