Conrad Veidt Quotes

"When I was in a play in a theater, and all was going well on stage, I felt that the audience and I were somehow joined into one."
-Conrad Veidt

"It was like a physical impact, something vital and quick, happening to us both. And I knew, from that moment, that whatever happened between us, we might disagree, get on each other's nerves, quarrel, do each other harm, but we could never be indifferent."
-Conrad Veidt

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

"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

"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

"The right partner in a film is equal to half the audience!"
-Conrad Veidt

"I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed; if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing; if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all; if it rains or shines; if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain."
-Conrad Veidt

"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