You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
From Diane Cilento
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
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.
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.
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.
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