Conrad Veidt Quotes

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

  Conrad Veidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor, Myself

• 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Happy, Perfectly

• 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

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  Tags in Puzzle, Together

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

  Conrad Veidt

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  Tags in Nothing, Hollywood

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

  Conrad Veidt

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  Tags in Born, Eye

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hurt, Career, Thing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Jealousy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Looking, Pictures

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting, Something

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Created, Artist

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

  Conrad Veidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Picture, Hollywood

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

  Conrad Veidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Naturally, Possibility

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Believe, Acting

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Become, Study, Secret

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Precision

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Turned, Reading

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Acting, Industry, Stupid

• 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

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Public, Illusions, Forget

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

  Conrad Veidt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Strong, Enough

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

  Conrad Veidt

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Through, Night

Conrad Veidt (23)

Birth:	22nd January, 1893
Death:	3rd April, 1943
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Actor

About

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was born in Berlin, Germany. He was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, and, after being forced to emigrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English-speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad, and, in Hollywood, Casablanca. From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen.

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