Jonathan Frid Quotes

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

• People
• Should
• Stuff

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

Jonathan Frid

• Company
• Winter
• Bartender

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

Jonathan Frid

• Attention
• Fame

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

• People
• Weakness
• Horror

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

Jonathan Frid

• Theatre
• Rooms

I'm interested in villainy.

Jonathan Frid

• Villainy

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

• Giving
• Mean
• Lying

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

Jonathan Frid

• Knows
• Curmudgeon