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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 to become an actor.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Actor Amount Appalled Become Desire Gradually Medicine Necessary Order Qualify Secret Study Wish

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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 priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Acting Always Began Believe Bizarre Directors Films First Me Never Part Played Priest Primarily Producers Role Saw Speaking Stage Strong Sympathetic Types Until Villain

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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

Topics: Accidental Incomplete May Me Naturally Perhaps Picture Possibility Prevent Someone Superficial Untrue Wish Write I Wish

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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.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Earthquake Hit Hollywood Just Magician Middle Picture Real Third

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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 of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Actor Art Artist Created Even Good Great Great Work Greatest He Joy Live Lives Part Played Proud Really Role Strain Though Tired Who Work

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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 and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Acting Being Consciousness Enter Greater Me More My Own New Other Own Possessed Precisely Some Something Spirit Switch Task Though Vital Were Within

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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 out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Across Another Aside Back Begin Clearly First Flash Itself Just Looking Looking Back Many Memory Next Out Pictures Pushed Screen See Slides Years

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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 my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Amount Birth Brother Caused Certain Elder Empire Father German Hitherto Home Jealousy Mother Much Neither Nor Only Pleased Pride Shook Son Upheaval Usual

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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

Topics: Acting Career Choosing Day Deep Died Done Early Father Forced Had He Him Hurt Me Only Regret Right See Still The Only Thing Thing Too

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

~Conrad Veidt

Topics: Born Eye

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Actor

Born: January 22nd, 1893

Died: April 3rd, 1943

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