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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"My favorite actor is Wallace Beery."

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Amber Hurdle

"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."

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Amber Hurdle

"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully."

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Amber Hurdle

"We have too many actors for the jobs available."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."

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Amber Hurdle

"It does make you a better director and a better actor."

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Amber Hurdle

"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."

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Amber Hurdle

"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists."

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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."

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

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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."

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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."

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

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

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Leon Askin
"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."

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