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.

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

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.

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

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

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.

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.