Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
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.
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.
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.
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.
bit
I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.
believe brought came father good idealistic mother
My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind.
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.