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

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

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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

Sylvia Kristel, Dutch Actress

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

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"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors."

Walter Winchell, American Journalist

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"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

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"In live stage, the actor lives."

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"At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore."

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"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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Explore more quotes by Conrad Veidt

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

Heart

"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."

Possibility

"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."

Business

"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."

Home

"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."

Acting

"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."

Expectation

"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."

Now

"I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself."

Now

"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."

Work

"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."

Acting