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 actbeginbizarre share on social
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. Conrad Veidt bohemianloosenessorder Change image and share on social
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 story, my life is just beginning. Conrad Veidt begindisassembleend Change image and share on social
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 amountbirthbrother share on social
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me. Conrad Veidt accidentalincompletenaturally Change image and share on social
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 backbeginblot share on social
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 happy or making a woman perfectly happy. Conrad Veidt conquerhappyheart Change image and share on social
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt actorbiographymovie Change image and share on social
I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself. Conrad Veidt conquerstrong Change image and share on social
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 actconsciousnessenter share on social
