Diane Cilento

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.”

“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.”