Conrad Veidt

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

— Conrad Veidt

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done…

— Conrad Veidt

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

— Conrad Veidt

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

— Conrad Veidt

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see…

— Conrad Veidt

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find…

— Conrad Veidt

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now -…

— Conrad Veidt

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget…

— Conrad Veidt

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a…

— Conrad Veidt

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by…

— Conrad Veidt

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

— Conrad Veidt

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a…

— Conrad Veidt

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

— Conrad Veidt

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but…

— Conrad Veidt

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as…

— Conrad Veidt

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part,…

— Conrad Veidt

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was…

— Conrad Veidt

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

— Conrad Veidt

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all…

— Conrad Veidt

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

— Conrad Veidt

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella,…

— Conrad Veidt

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

— Conrad Veidt

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision…

— Conrad Veidt