Quotes by Conrad Veidt - Page 1

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Born
Eye
Monocles
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What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Actors
Biographies
Use
Biography
Movie Actor
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I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Strength
Conquer
Should Have
Strong
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Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Firsts
Forests
Late
Night
Love Night Late
Forest
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An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Actors
Heart
Pieces
Praise
Piece
Published
Remembers
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Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Enough
Expectations
Hollywood
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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 / Film Actor
Art
Debt
Forget
Art I Am Me
Consequently
Art Me I Am
Illusions
Likely
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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 / Film Actor
Bohemian
Order
Precision
Recycling
Thinking
Prefer
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In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Earthquakes
Hollywood
Magician
Middle
Real
Picture
Hit
Earthquake
Third
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I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Incomplete
May
Possibility
Superficial
Untrue
Wish
Writing
Picture
Accidental
Naturally
Perhaps
Prevent
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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 / Film Actor
Competition
Fighting
Half
Joy
Struggle
Winning
Against
Achieving
Fight
Pitting
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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 / Film Actor
Book
Died
Mother
Son
Hers
Recorded
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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.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Medicine
Order
Secret
Study
Stupid
Appalled
Blunted
Gradually
Qualify
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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 / Film Actor
Jigsaw
Jigsaw Puzzles
Stories
Together
Life Time Together
Jigsaw Puzzle
Parts
Piece
Puzzle
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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 / Film Actor
Died
Father
Hurt
Regret
Choosing
Forced
Father Me Day
The Only Thing
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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 / Film Actor
Garden
One Day
Reading
Umbrella
Me Day Back
Lay
Offered
Script
Third
Wondered
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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 / Film Actor
Believe
Has Beens
Heart
All My Heart
Conquered
Perfectly
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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 / Film Actor
Jealousy
Birth
Brother
Father
Fraternal
Mother
Pride
Son
Upheaval
Usual
Caused
Home Mother Father
German
Elder
Empire
Hitherto
Neither
Nor
Pleased
Shook
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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 / Film Actor
Acting
Consciousness
Greater
Possessed
Spirit
Tasks
Enter
Precisely
Switch
Task
Vital
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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 slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.
Conrad Veidt / Film Actor
Flash
Looking Back
Memories
Next
Slides
Years
Begin
Aside
Looking Back Looking Back
Blotting
Clearly
Memory
Pictures
Screen
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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 / Film Actor
Art
Great Work
Joy
Strain
Tired
Work Art Good
Great Strain
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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 / Film Actor
Business
Despise
Disgusted
Hate
Heart And Soul
Stupid
Time Work Business
Picture
All My Heart
Work Time Business
Motion
Motion Picture
Motion Picture Industry
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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 / Film Actor
Acting
Believe
Bizarre
Producers
Strong
Sympathetic
Villain
Always Believe Me
Began
Believe Me Always
Priest
Speaking
Types
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