Conrad Veidt Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”