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Quotes by Conrad Veidt

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
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
Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?
– Conrad Veidt
I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed; if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing; if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all; if it rains or shines; if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain.
– Conrad Veidt
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
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
I think, myself, it is harder for two artists, both ambitious, both temperamental, both perhaps egotistical, to jog along equably in the necessarily restraining atmosphere of a double harness.
– Conrad Veidt
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
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
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
I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the way my marriage seemed to be foundering. And one day when my wife was away, I walked out of the house, and out of her life, trying to escape from something I could put no name to.
– Conrad Veidt
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
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
– Conrad Veidt
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
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
It was like a physical impact, something vital and quick, happening to us both. And I knew, from that moment, that whatever happened between us, we might disagree, get on each other's nerves, quarrel, do each other harm, but we could never be indifferent.
– Conrad Veidt
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
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
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
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
The one thing I look for everywhere is beauty. I find it everywhere, and in almost every person. A lovely painting, a good book, or music moves me. It has a life of its own. But I get just as satisfying a thrill when I look at streets wet with rain or see a typist's quick fingers traveling with precision over her keyboard.
– Conrad Veidt
The right partner in a film is equal to half the audience!
– Conrad Veidt
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
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.
– Conrad Veidt
When I was in a play in a theater, and all was going well on stage, I felt that the audience and I were somehow joined into one.
– Conrad Veidt