Diane Cilento Quotes

"I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Family, Old)

"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Work, Time, Film)

"I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines."
- Diane Cilento

"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Funny, Name, Pretty, School)

"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Nothing)

"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: School, Teaching)

"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Teen, Being, Years)

"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: England, Pretty, Years)

"I had a quick ear and could pick up languages."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Quick)

"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Skill, Theory)

"I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Time, Sleep)

"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: People, Pretty, Teachers)

"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Home, Time, People, Bed, Tea)

"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Fashion, Girls, Schools)

"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Mother, Children, Doctors, Parents)

"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Energy, Learning, Profession, Want)

"When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Holiday)

"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Trying)

"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Money, Time, Mother, Father, Thought)

"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Bed, Children)

"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Time, Mother, Control, America)

"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Father, Successful, Acting, Silly, Want)

"You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Home, Fun, Running)

"It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers."
- Diane Cilento

"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Children, Now)

"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Money)