Top 41 Cilento Quotes
#1. I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.
Diane Cilento
#2. 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.
Diane Cilento
#4. I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.
Diane Cilento
#5. I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Diane Cilento
#6. I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.
Diane Cilento
#7. 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.
Diane Cilento
#8. Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.
Diane Cilento
#9. Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams.
review in London Review of Books, of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998)
James Wood
#10. My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
Diane Cilento
#11. I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
Diane Cilento
#12. 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.
Diane Cilento
#13. My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
Diane Cilento
#14. When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
Diane Cilento
#15. Whatever you do the Daimon Club for sure can do something for you too, of course, and together we can do so much more! Join us!
William C. Brown
#16. I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.
Jean Kerr
#18. The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.
Diane Cilento
#19. Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
Orson Welles
#20. Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
Diane Cilento
#21. 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.
Diane Cilento
#22. You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
Diane Cilento
#23. 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.
Diane Cilento
#24. I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
Diane Cilento
#25. If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
Joseph Campbell
#26. Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.
Simon Mainwaring
#27. Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
Diane Cilento
#28. I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.
Arthur Fogel
#29. 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.
Diane Cilento
#30. No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
James Earl Jones
#31. 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.
Diane Cilento
#32. 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.
Diane Cilento
#33. Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
Diane Cilento
#34. 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.
Diane Cilento
#35. Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.
Diane Cilento
#36. 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.
Diane Cilento
#37. Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
Diane Cilento
#38. Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
Diane Cilento
#39. What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.
Ayn Rand
#40. Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.
Mario Cantone
#41. I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
Diane Cilento
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