Fred Melamed
Fred Melamed
Fred Melamedis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 May 1956
CountryUnited States of America
children believe two
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.
mean pleasure hedonistic
The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.
years ham pancakes
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.
real moving character
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.
stars three film
It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.
boys years giving
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.
knowing wish world
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.
long stage plans
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.
mets
I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.
ignorant adherence legalism
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.
strong jewish-tradition keeping-your-mouth-shut
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.
running eight long
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.
careers long acting
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.
world sometimes universal
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.