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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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Donna Grant

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Donna Grant

"I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic."

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Donna Grant

"When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way."

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Donna Grant

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves."

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Donna Grant

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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Donna Grant

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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Donna Grant

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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

Difference

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Leon Askin
"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."

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

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