Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Frid

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian actor Jonathan Frid.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Jonathan Frid

Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, widely known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows.

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
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.
I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely. — © Jonathan Frid
I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely.
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.
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.
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.
The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.
It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
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.
I'm interested in villainy.
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