Conrad Veidt Quotes
"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
(Related: Work, Art, Actor, Artist, Joy)
"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
(Related: Acting, Being, Consciousness, Spirit)
"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
(Related: First, Memory, Years)
"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
(Related: Home, Mother, Father, Brother, Son, Jealousy, 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
(Related: Father, Acting, Career, Day, Deep, Hurt, Regret, Right)
"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Actor, Biography)
"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Expectations, Hollywood, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Nature, Heart, Being, Now, Woman)
"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Hollywood)
"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
(Related: Day, First, Garden, Reading)
"No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Eye)
"Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?"
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Love, First, Night)
"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
(Related: Mother, Son)
"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
(Related: Actor, Desire, Medicine, Order, Study)
"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
(Related: Winning, Competition, Fight, Joy, Struggle, World)
"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Possibility, May)
"I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Now)
"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
(Related: Art, Debt, Forget, Public)
"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
(Related: Business, Time, Work, Soul, Heart, Acting, Film, Hate, Play)
"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
(Related: Now, Order)
"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
(Related: Acting, Bizarre, First)
"An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart."
- Conrad Veidt
(Related: Heart, Actor, First, Praise)