Jonathan Frid Quotes
"The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Living, Right, Theatre)
"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Truth, Friend, Horror, Lying)
"People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: People, Right)
"It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Family, Friends, Tension)
"I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: People, Horror, Old, Theater, Years)
"I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Old)
"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Company, Winter)
"Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Thought, Jobs, Mail, Shadows)
"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: states)
"All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Work, Attention, Fame, Want)
"I'm interested in villainy."
- Jonathan Frid
(Related: Villainy)