Top 23 Quotes by Conrad Veidt

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.