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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say. — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round. — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
