“I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.” Quote by Antoniette Costa
“The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.” MeanPleasureHedonistic Author:Fred Melamed
“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.” PeopleKindShowsHouseParentCitiesFireNew YorkBabyGrewInvolvedGrew UpAbsolutesRegardFamiliarEnjoyedIslandsFriendlyNew York CityMy SisterShow Business Author:Fred Melamed
“I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.” PlaySchoolFunThings To Do Author: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.” PeopleWayKindCharacterAspectExtremesTypical Author:Fred Melamed
“The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsKindCountryDoneStoriesFilmUsedGuyVoiceInterestGroupsChangedPercentUsed To BeAppealsMassiveBroadsReversePercentagesSelectVoice Over Author:Fred Melamed
“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.” WorldSometimesUniversal Author:Fred Melamed
“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.” KindLongProblemActorsStuffActingCareersStageStrangeTerribleLong TimeTheaterQuittingFrightI QuitTrajectoryStage FrightStage Acting Author:Fred Melamed
“It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.” BigsFilmThreeStarsLiam Author:Fred Melamed
“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.” WantLongTogetherProcessEffectsKeysDirectorsProductionsVariousPostsIngredientsAlchemyPost Production Author:Fred Melamed