Diane Cilento Quotes

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

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  Teenage, Years, Clown

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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.

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  Father, Silly, Successful

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• Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

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  Love, Wings, Way

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

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  Hard Work, Lines, Workers

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• 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.

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  Home, Naughty, People

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

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  Nice, Naughty, House

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• 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.

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  Teacher, People, Taught

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

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  Running, Fun, Home

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

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  Trying, Spheres, Looking Back

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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.

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  Writing, Mathematics, Algebra

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Rage

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

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  Mother, Italian, Facts

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

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  Skills, Ambitious, Movement

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• I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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  Ears, Language, Picks

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• 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

  School, Names, Brown

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

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  Mother, Children, Doctors

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• 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.

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  Teaching, School, Littles

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• 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.

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  Energy, Want, Stretching

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• 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.

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  Mother, Father, Worry

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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.

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  Children, Thinking, Stuff

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

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  Children, Bed, Parental

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• When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

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  Tired, Holiday, Taming

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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.

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  Mother, New York, America

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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.

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  Girl, Fashion, School

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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.

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  Grandmother, Piano, Different

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