Diane Cilento Quotes

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• Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
• I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
• 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…
• I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
• I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
• My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
• Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
• 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…
• 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…
• My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
• Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.
• 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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