Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth5 October 1933
CountryAustralia
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.
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.
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.