Diane Cilento Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

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.

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.

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

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.