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«I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the way my marriage seemed to be foundering. And one day when my wife was away, I walked out of the house, and out of her life, trying to escape from something I could put no name to.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«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.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«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.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«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.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«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.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«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.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«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.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«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.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
«No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.»
Author: Conrad Veidt
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