Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
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.
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.
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.
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.
running fun home
You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
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.
children bed parental
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
earning contracts lots-of-money
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
holiday tired shrews
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
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.