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

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Diane Cilento
Age: 78 †
Born: 1933
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: October 6
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Theatre Actress
Writer
Mooloolaba
Queensland
Australia
Thing
Silly
Successful
Acting
Father

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I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
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I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.
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Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
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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.
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I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
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I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
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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.
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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
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Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.
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