Top 27 Quotes by 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.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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