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