Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
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.
academics believe child money paying serious worth
I believe academics think that if the child doesn't go to university, they aren't really a serious person and not worth paying the money for.
bands count huge knew loved theatre
There were huge big bands like Count Basie, and I used to go from the theatre to Birdland, and they all knew me. I loved the big band sound.
raging
I've always had a lot of energy. I was up and about and raging around all the time. And I did get tuberculosis out of it, finally.
bit
I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.
childhood everybody happy keeps remember talking whether
Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can't remember being unhappy. I think I probably was.
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.
nice naughty house
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
trying spheres looking-back
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
father silly successful
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
running fun home
You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
home naughty people
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.
writing mathematics algebra
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 science, but I wasn't sure of it.
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.