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Leon Askin

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

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Amber Hurdle

"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

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Amber Hurdle

"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

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Amber Hurdle

"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."

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Amber Hurdle

"My mother taught me to read."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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Amber Hurdle

"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."

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Amber Hurdle

"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."

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Amber Hurdle

"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."

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Amber Hurdle

"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."

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

Life

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Leon Askin
"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."

Father

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

Mother

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

Actor

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Leon Askin
"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."

Germany

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

Life

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

Difference

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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."

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Leon Askin
"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."

Art

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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."

Dream

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