Diane Cilento Quotes

• You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

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• When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

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• Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

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• Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

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• My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

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• My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

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• 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.

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• I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn’t sure of it.

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• 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.

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• I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

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• I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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Diane Cilento (27)

Birth:	5th October, 1933
Death:	6th October, 2011
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actress, Author

About

Diane Cilento was born in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia. She was an Australian theatre and film actress and author. Her first leading role in a movie was in the British film Passage Home, opposite fellow Australian Peter Finch. In 1956, Cilento was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actress for Helen of Troy in Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates.  She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Tom Jones in 1963 and appeared in The Third Secret. In 2006, she released her autobiography, My Nine Lives.

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