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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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 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
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
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
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Conrad Veidt
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
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