Diane Cilento Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”