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.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

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.

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

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.