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Diane Cilento Quotes

Diane Cilento quotes

Australian Actress October 5, 1933

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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. Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento quote: "I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It..."
I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento quote: "My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be..."
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say. Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento quote: "My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control,..."
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento quote: "Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in..."
Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento quote: "Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat..."
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento quote: "You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing,..."
You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round. Diane Cilento
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. Diane Cilento

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