Quotes from Diane Cilento

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

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

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

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.

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

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.