Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento

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
Diane Cilento

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento

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
Diane Cilento

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento

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
Diane Cilento

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.