50 Quotes by Diane Cilento

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

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.

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 or Hughes.

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.

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.

When I was in New York I fell madly in love with an Italian and got married. I couldn't get out of it, and that's when I got a bit ill.