Leon Askin Quotes & Sayings

“The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.”

“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.”

“To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.”

“At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.”

“Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.”

“From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.”

“It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.”