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Peter Lorre

I didn’t speak English very well, but I studied day and night so I’d be ready for my first break. When Hitchcock interviewed me I didn’t understand a word be said, but I had been told that he liked to tell jokes so I watched him carefully and when I thought he was waiting for a laugh… I laughed.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

My family encouraged me to paint, but I was never allowed to go to the theater. Naturally, this made me interested in the theater.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

I don’t like the word ‘villain’ or ‘heavy.’

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

I’ve never seen myself on the screen.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

Despite the fact Hollywood classes me as a ‘type,’ I find the roles broad enough to handle all the acting technique I can summon together.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

Most of my pictures both in this country and abroad have been of the ‘horror’ variety.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

Some people think I was in movies I’ve never been in.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

In New York I was taken to a restaurant where comedians gather. There were 14 who imitate me in their acts. They wanted me to give them pointers.

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Peter Lorre

I wouldn’t mind doing those sinister roles again, but in pictures I will direct myself.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

I don’t want to be typed as a villain or a comedian. One would be as bad as the other. I had to fight that sort of thing several times in my life. And it’s painful because it consists of turning down money to do a role.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

I signed with Columbia for two reasons. One reason I saw two of Frank Capra s pictures in Paris, and I want to work with him. Then at Columbia, in Harry Cohn, there is only one judge to please. I could not face the juries of fourteen that I have heard about at so many large studios.

– Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

Terrible letters came to me. Letters from strange people; people whom I never believed lived in the world; depraved and distorted minds, thinking they saw in me the perfect companion, a fellow psychopathic.

– Peter Lorre

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