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> [I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/i-was-appalled-at-the-amount-of-study-necessary-in-order-to-qualify/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

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## More by Conrad Veidt

> [Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/nothing-seems-to-come-up-to-your-expectations-but-nothing-i-had-heard/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/after-my-mother-died-i-found-a-little-book-of-hers-which-recorded/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/i-can-see-now-that-i-should-have-been-strong-enough-to-conquer-myself/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/what-use-is-there-for-a-biography-of-myself-i-m-just-a-movie-actor/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/looking-back-across-the-years-so-many-pictures-flash-on-the-screen-of/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/so-now-it-is-time-to-disassemble-the-parts-of-the-jigsaw-puzzle-or-to/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/there-must-have-been-something-in-my-nature-i-believe-with-all-my/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/i-have-no-illusions-about-my-art-i-am-what-the-public-made-me-and/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/i-think-the-motion-picture-industry-is-a-stupid-business-and-i/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/i-was-appalled-at-the-amount-of-study-necessary-in-order-to-qualify/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/i-wish-naturally-to-prevent-the-possibility-that-someone-may-write-an/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/my-birth-neither-shook-the-german-empire-nor-caused-much-of-an/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/an-actor-remembers-his-first-piece-of-published-praise-it-is-written/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/it-is-my-greatest-joy-to-live-a-really-good-part-even-though-it/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

> [It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-veidt/it-is-precisely-as-though-i-were-possessed-by-some-other-spirit-when/)

[Conrad Veidt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-veidt/)

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