Top 36 Veidt's Quotes

#1. 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

Veidt's Quotes #19354
#2. 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

Veidt's Quotes #102888
#3. 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

Veidt's Quotes #162549
#4. My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

Nancy Pelosi

Veidt's Quotes #200392
#5. If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

Stefan Sagmeister

Veidt's Quotes #377102
#6. 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

Veidt's Quotes #417233
#7. I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #493528
#8. 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

Veidt's Quotes #516656
#9. An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #525020
#10. What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #568280
#11. I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #623059
#12. Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

Swami Satchidananda

Veidt's Quotes #778216
#13. Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.

Cheryl Mendelson

Veidt's Quotes #801862
#14. No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #815495
#15. There was no mistaking; he was a King on his throne... and I crowned him.

Jessica M. Collette

Veidt's Quotes #951960
#16. 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

Veidt's Quotes #1095988
#17. 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

Veidt's Quotes #1226892
#18. 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

Veidt's Quotes #1311815
#19. The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Suzy Menkes

Veidt's Quotes #1327641
#20. If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

David Jeremiah

Veidt's Quotes #1337269
#21. Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Dorothy Parker

Veidt's Quotes #1383035
#22. 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

Veidt's Quotes #1407585
#23. You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks ... although the latter is much less realistic.

Kenneth Lonergan

Veidt's Quotes #1408127
#24. 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

Veidt's Quotes #1413886
#25. 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.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #1481047
#26. In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #1598165
#27. Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #1601268
#28. 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

Veidt's Quotes #1605270
#29. The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It's time for science to examine the many facets of the soul. The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.

Suzy Kassem

Veidt's Quotes #1734033
#30. Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #1746186
#31. 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.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #1757726
#32. God is the unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality.

Alfred North Whitehead

Veidt's Quotes #1775917
#33. 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.

Conrad Veidt

Veidt's Quotes #1813857
#34. Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.

Isaac Asimov

Veidt's Quotes #1817693
#35. 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

Veidt's Quotes #1828677
#36. Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

Jimmy Iovine

Veidt's Quotes #1864096

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