Conrad Veidt Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

Ani DiFranco

#3. 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.

Conrad Veidt

#4. The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

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

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#10. 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

#11. When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Funny women are honest women.

Elizabeth Meriwether

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

Conrad Veidt

#14. 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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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard

Eminem

#18. For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Bill Bryson

#19. I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

Conrad Veidt

#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern to major in English, wound up in college for two years. Studied animation there. Came to Disney. My first week at Disney was the week that 'Star Wars' came out.

John Musker

#23. 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

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

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#25. 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.

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

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

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#28. 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.

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#29. I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

Bai Ling

#30. I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

Bob Crosby

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

Conrad Veidt

#32. However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

Frederick Reines

#33. The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Natalie Imbruglia

#34. 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.

Conrad Veidt

#35. We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader.

John Kasich