Cilento Diane Quotes & Sayings

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed. — Diane Cilento

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary. — 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

Well?" said Professor McGonagall, rounding on him. "Is this true?" "Is what true?" Harry asked, rather more aggressively than he had intended. "Professor?" he added in an attempt to sound more polite. "Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes," said Harry. "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is back?" "Yes." Professor McGonagall sat down behind her desk, frowning at Harry. Then she said, "Have a biscuit, Potter." "Have - what?" "Have a biscuit," she repeated impatiently, indicating a tartan tin of cookies lying on top of one of the piles of papers on her desk. — J.K. Rowling

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. — Diane Cilento

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown. — Diane Cilento

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though. — Diane Cilento

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

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

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted. — John Noble

We're on our way to rescue a queen, overthrow an evil wizard, and win back a country.
Care to join us?
- Wolverine (Doomwar #1) — Jonathan Maberry

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

In the North American Review, in August 1889, in an article titled "The Lesson of Conemaugh," the director of the U. S. Geological Survey, Major John Wesley Powell, wrote that the dam had not been "properly related to the natural conditions" and concluded: "Modern industries are handling the forces of nature on a stupendous scale. . . . Woe to the people who trust these powers to the hands of fools. — David McCullough

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

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer. — Ed Robertson

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it. — Diane Cilento

The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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

Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf. — Alex Steffen

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

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book. — Gary Jennings

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

One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became. — Jeff Grubb

Then her envious heart had peace, as much as an envious heart can have. — Wilhelm Grimm

I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who had a stereo in his dressing room. So while I was in school or when I was in there working with Dr. Smith and the robot, half the rest of the cast was in my trailer listening to their records that they would bring. — Bill Mumy

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. — Diane Cilento

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. — Diane Cilento

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. — Diane Cilento

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

Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice. — Stephen R. Covey

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

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

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. — 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

This is the truth, Kate. I don't understand why every man in the world isn't in love with you. — Noelle Adams

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

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

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money. — Diane Cilento

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. — Diane Cilento

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. — Diane Cilento

Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job. — Toby Jones