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…

— Diane Cilento

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

— Diane Cilento

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank…

— Diane Cilento

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You…

— Diane Cilento

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

— Diane Cilento

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny…

— Diane Cilento

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would…

— Diane Cilento

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

— Diane Cilento

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

— Diane Cilento

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time…

— Diane Cilento

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed…

— Diane Cilento

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at…

— Diane Cilento

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

— Diane Cilento

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

— Diane Cilento

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

— Diane Cilento

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

— Diane Cilento

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

— Diane Cilento

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage…

— Diane Cilento

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…

— Diane Cilento

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like…

— Diane Cilento

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things…

— Diane Cilento

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

— Diane Cilento

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

— Diane Cilento

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

— Diane Cilento

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

— Diane Cilento