Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
mother children doctors
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
ears language picks
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
thinking matter my-family
I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
teaching school littles
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.
school names brown
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.
teenage years clown
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
grandmother piano different
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.
intention sort work
You had to to sort of work your way into some sort of clique, and I had no intention of doing that. So I just sort of was funny.
directors hard picked shown work
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.