Frid Quotes & Sayings

I'm interested in villainy. — Jonathan Frid

Instead of noting down things I'm unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words. — Paulo Coelho

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

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

A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway. — Michael Silverblatt

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

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

An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems. — Tahir Shah

The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and ... " "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's — Shannon Hale

A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation. — Ingibjorg N. Frid

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves ... to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence ... — Kitt Weagant

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

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

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life. — Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

Center is a very tough position to play. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew perfectly well our ranges and which kind of voice they wanted on a specific song. And sometimes, I envied the choice of Agnetha, I must admit. — Anni-Frid Lyngstad

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

Strange when that part in you is touched how quickly you can fall apart. It's as if the words that are being said go to the deepest place, the place in you that's become the way you've become so you can keep on going. The helmet you put on when you were a kid that grew into your head and now someone is saying you have a helmet on your head. — Tom Spanbauer

Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything. — Masi Oka

During her childhood Tita didn't distinguish between tears of laughter and tears of sorrow. For her, laughing was a form of crying. — Laura Esquivel

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers. — Plutarch

The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way. — Cheryl Strayed

I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it. — Jim Henson

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way. — Britt Daniel