Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
bit fell italian love madly york
When I was in New York I fell madly in love with an Italian and got married. I couldn't get out of it, and that's when I got a bit ill.
mother father worry
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.
skills ambitious movement
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
sleep thinking rage
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.
teacher people taught
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.
mother italian facts
Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.
stupid australia years
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 what I wanted to do, more or less.
children thinking steps
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.
earning contracts lots-of-money
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
mother new-york america
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
girl fashion school
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.
father silly successful
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
comedy control learnt michael stage
I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.
blondie girls
There was that thing of girls. Girls don't have to do anything. Little blondie pretty girls don't really have to know anything much.