16 Quotes by Leon Askin

It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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