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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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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.

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No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

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

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What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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