Fred Melamed Quotes
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.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.
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Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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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.
