Jonathan Frid Quotes

Jonathan Frid — Canadian Actor born on December 02, 1924,

John Herbert "Jonathan" Frid was a Canadian theater, television, and film actor, known for having played the role of vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows... (wikipedia)

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 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.

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.

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

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