Top 27 Quotes by Diane Cilento

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.