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

- 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 real…

- Fred Melamed

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, …

- Fred Melamed

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 Skateboa…

- Fred Melamed

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, thou…

- Fred Melamed

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

- Fred Melamed

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.

- Fred Melamed

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

- Fred Melamed

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 …

- Fred Melamed