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Fred Melamed Biography

Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956) is an American actor and writer. He is best known for portraying Sy Ableman in A Serious Man, Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite, Sam Soto in In a World..., and for appearing in seven films directed by Woody Allen.

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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.

Acting, Eight, Glad, Islands, Relatively

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

Hedonistic, Mean, Pleasure, Word

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.

Adherence, Ignorant, Judaism, Rituals, Swallow

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.

Character, Characters, Kind, Larger, People, Typical

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.

Agreement, Knowing, Live, Wish

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.

Character, Moving, Real, Regarding, Speaking

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

Film, Funny, Liam, Neeson, Stars, Three

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.

Audience, Eight, Long, Possibility, Running

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

Admired, Diane, Keaton, Met, Mets

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.

Boys, Christmas, Costly, Pleasing, Proposition, Years

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.

Keys, Long, Making, Process, Together

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.

Character, Fat, Freeing, Kids, Men, Time

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.

Autism, Believe, Children, Deserve, Mystery, Two

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

Fun, Play, Plays, School, Thing

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