Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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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

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I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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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

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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. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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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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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. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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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

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Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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