Conrad Veidt quotes Born: 01/22/1893 Died: 04/03/1943 Country: germany

• 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 proud she was of her son Conrad. (Conrad Veidt) [mother]
• An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. (Conrad Veidt)
• For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning. (Conrad Veidt) [joy/fight/competition]
• Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love? (Conrad Veidt) [night]
• I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself. (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 to them. (Conrad Veidt) [art/forget/sense of duty]
• 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 this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul. (Conrad Veidt) [think/motion/business/time]
• 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, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. (Conrad Veidt) [day/garden/reading]
• 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 looseness. (Conrad Veidt) [think/order]
• 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. (Conrad Veidt) [amount/order/desire/wish]
• 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 not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. (Conrad Veidt) [stage/stage/role]
• I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. (Conrad Veidt) [wish]
• In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies. (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 he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played. (Conrad Veidt) [joy/artist/art/role]
• 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 me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. (Conrad Veidt) [spirit/consciousness/more/being]
• 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 slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next. (Conrad Veidt) [memory]
• My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. (Conrad Veidt) [housing/mother/amount/pride]
• 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 him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing. (Conrad Veidt) [day/career/right/thing]
• No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye. (Conrad Veidt)
• Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough. (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 come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning. (Conrad Veidt) [time/puzzle/find/start]
• There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy. (Conrad Veidt) [nature/being]
• What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. (Conrad Veidt) [movie]

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