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Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life.

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.