Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
skills ambitious movement
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
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.
want energy stretching
The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.
love wings way
Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.
mother children doctors
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
hard-work lines workers
I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.
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.
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.
ears language picks
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
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.
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.