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

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
Diane Cilento

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

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
Diane Cilento

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

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

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

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