Fred Melamed Quotes

• 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

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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, but I’m always interested in going back.

  Fred Melamed

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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 and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

  Fred Melamed

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• 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

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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. 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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Fred Melamed (10)

Birth:	13th May, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Screenwriter

About

Fred Melamed was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Sy Ableman in A Serious Man, Sam Soto in In a World..., and for appearing in seven films directed by Woody Allen. His role in several films include: Bone Tomahawk, Some Kind of Beautiful, The Dictator, Get on Up, Fred Won't Move Out, Suspect, Blumenthal, and The Good Mother. He earned his BA from Hampshire College and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

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