Diane Cilento

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I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.

Everybody thought I was a crazy, funny person who'd do anything, and that's how I got to be acceptable to everyone.

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.

There was that thing of girls. Girls don't have to do anything. Little blondie pretty girls don't really have to know anything much.

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.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

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.

My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

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

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.