Leon Askin Quotations

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

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.