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Diane Cilento Biography

Diane Cilento (5 October 1933 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.

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Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

Children, Doctors, Mother, Surgery

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.

Littles, School, Teaching, Things

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

Fun, Having, Home, Running, Stayed, Surfing

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.

Fashion, Girl, Hand, Like, Quite, School

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Clown, Teen, Teenage, Years

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

Ambitious, Learn, Movement, Skills, Teach

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

Hard, Hard Work, Lines, Worker, Workers

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

Back, Looking, Looking Back, Sphere, Spheres, Trying

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Earning, Contracts, Lots Of Money, Contract, Lots

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

Family, Looked, Matter, My Family, Old, Thinking

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.

Come, Home, Naughty, People, Things, Time

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

Father, Said, Silly, Successful, Thing

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

Nice, Naughty, House, Accountable, Sheet

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

Place, Pretty, Stupid, Two, Years

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

Bed, Children, Collapsed, Parental

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

Fact, Facts, Italian, Mother, Undeniable, Woman

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.

Energy, Huge, Stretching, Times, Want

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.

Across, Brown, Chest, Hughes, Names, School

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.

Earning, Father, Mother, Time, Worry, Worrying

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.

Lived, Rage, Sleep, Think, Thinking