50 Quotes by Diane Cilento

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

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

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.

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.

I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.

My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind.

You had to to sort of work your way into some sort of clique, and I had no intention of doing that. So I just sort of was funny.

Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can't remember being unhappy. I think I probably was.

I've always had a lot of energy. I was up and about and raging around all the time. And I did get tuberculosis out of it, finally.