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

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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

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

— Conrad Veidt

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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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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

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An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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

— Conrad Veidt

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

— Conrad Veidt

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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

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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

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