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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I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.Conrad Veidt
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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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.
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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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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.
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The right partner in a film is equal to half the audience.
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