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23 quotes by Conrad Veidt

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German-born British actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Casablanca (1942). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best paid stars of Ufa, he left Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in...
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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... →

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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.

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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.

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

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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.

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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