Quotations and phrases - Jonathan Frid

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
-- Jonathan Frid

I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely.
-- Jonathan Frid

I never pushed to be on television again.
-- Jonathan Frid

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
-- Jonathan Frid

I went over there to get a classical training and discovered that Canadians, because they are British subjects, are able to work without a permit.
-- Jonathan Frid

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.
-- Jonathan Frid

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

I'm interested in villainy.
-- Jonathan Frid

I'm interested in what makes ordinary people, like yourself, tick the way you do. And the way I tick. And the way somebody else ticks.
-- Jonathan Frid

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.
-- Jonathan Frid

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.
-- Jonathan Frid

Meanwhile, I had planned to go west and get a teaching job, or do that along with some work in Hollywood, such as television or film.
-- Jonathan Frid

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

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.
-- Jonathan Frid

They know I hate these fangs, and yet the first four pictures all show me in fangs. I know it's all part of the game.
-- Jonathan Frid

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

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

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