Top 15 Quotes by Leon Askin

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.

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.

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

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

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

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.

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

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.

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

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