Conrad Veidt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Conrad Veidt quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased actor born on Jan 22, 1893). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 23 we have for him.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.”
“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.”
“No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.”
“What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.”
“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.”
“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.”
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