Diane Cilento (5 October 1933 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian theatre and film actress and author. Read full biography of Diane Cilento →
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when... →
Diane Cilento (5 October 1933 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.