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.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Tom Jones in 1963 and appeared in The Third Secret the following year but Diane Cilento allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery the second of her three husbands to whom Diane Cilento was married from 1962 to 1973. She also had a daughter Andrea with her first husband. ISBN 9780143006077.