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Jonathan Frid [1924-0] Canadian
Rank: 111
Actor, Theatre actor


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

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