"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations.……" — Conrad Veidt
"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
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Conrad Veidt
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23 Quotes by Conrad Veidt
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Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin…
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In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the…
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I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one…
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My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career…
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I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under…
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I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely…
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It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is…
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I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
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I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was…
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I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order…
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I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a…
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An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
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