Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
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.
intention sort work
You had to to sort of work your way into some sort of clique, and I had no intention of doing that. So I just sort of was funny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
directors hard picked shown work
If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.
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.