Conrad Veidt Quotes

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• Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another…
• In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
• I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate…
• My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt…
• I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden,…
• I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to…
• It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he…
• I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
• I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener -…
• I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and…
• I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or…
• An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
• Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?
• There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me…
• After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how…
• It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within…
• No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.
• Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
• What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
• For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition -…

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