Leon Askin quotes Born: 09/18/1907 Died: 06/03/2005 Country: austria

• 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) [honour/art/science/parents]
• A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak. (Leon Askin) [actors/speak]
• At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. (Leon Askin) [start/life/fame/recognition]
• Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him. (Leon Askin) [time]
• 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) [change]
• From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life. (Leon Askin) [moment/life/life]
• 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) [military/activities]
• 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) [morning/evening]
• It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession. (Leon Askin) [difference]
• It was fascinating for me to drive with Lies through the country roads. I also got to know Vienna again by driving through my home town by car. (Leon Askin) [housing/car]
• It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor. (Leon Askin) [life]
• My father was an ardent socialist for many years. (Leon Askin)
• The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre. (Leon Askin) [interest/mother/more/theatre]
• To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages. (Leon Askin)
• 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) [start]
• 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) [situation/stage]

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