An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
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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
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
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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Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?
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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 can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
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