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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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