Quotes by Leon Askin - Page 1

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
Leon Askin / Actor
Ardent
Father
Socialist
Years
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It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
Leon Askin / Actor
Life Great My Life
Chances
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A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
Leon Askin / Actor
Speak
Used
Actor
Considered
Too
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It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
Leon Askin / Actor
Honorary
Profession
Great Deal
Receive
Title
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At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
Leon Askin / Actor
Belated
Birth
Cities
Fame
Recognition
Achieved
Life City My Life
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Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
Leon Askin / Actor
Actors
Directors
Producers
Admired
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From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.
Leon Askin / Actor
Profession
Remained
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To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
Leon Askin / Actor
Actors
Advantages And Disadvantages
Disadvantages
Honor
Considered
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The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
Leon Askin / Actor
Concerts
Fields
Mother
Theatre
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Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
Leon Askin / Actor
Father
Great Change
Orthodox
Party
Socialist
Socialist Party
Used
Member
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We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
Leon Askin / Actor
Austria
Germany
Neighbor
Pointing
Naturally
Northern
Political Situation
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I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
Leon Askin / Actor
Air
Educated
Interesting
Military
Activities
Corps
Serve
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
Leon Askin / Actor
Morning
Coffee
Evening
Lunch
Meat
Pieces
Soup
Potato
Received
Thin
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Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.
Leon Askin / Actor
Dream
Bombarded
December
Harbour
Opening
Theater
Date
Washington
Unfortunately
Japanese
Pearl
Prompt
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1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
Leon Askin / Actor
Art
Cities
Honour
Mean
Titles
Vienna
Art Science Great
Cross
Science Art Great
Great Deal
Honors
Received
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