Finty Williams

“I want to play Miss Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.' Really badly.”

“Who wouldn't want to work with someone you so utterly respect and you're such good friends with?”

“If she wasn't my mother, I'd want her to be my best friend.”

“I don't aspire to have her career, or to be as talented as her, because I'd feel like I was shooting myself down in flames. If you have a parent who is that successful and set them as a benchmark, then everything is going to be disappointing.”

“I love being surrounded by my family at weekends.”

“I've worked with a couple of people in my career that have stopped me dead in my tracks because they make it look so effortless and so extraordinary. One of them is Ben Daniels and the other is Chris Larkin.”

“I'm me, and I've got the cards that I've been dealt.”

“I spent most of my teenage years in the National Theatre.”

“My mother very bravely put me into rehab two weeks after my father died.”

“Saturday afternoon I'll go shopping. Always. I can find things to buy wherever I am.”

“I don't drink any more so I switched my obsession to musicals.”

“I can't think of many places I'd rather spend Saturday afternoon than in a tattoo parlor.”

“My father was my mother's greatest flag waver.”

“I don't know whether, if your father is a brain surgeon, people go, 'He's not as good a brain surgeon as his father.' I don't know whether that happens, but because of who Ma is, a lot of people have an opinion, which they form before they get to know me or before they see what I can do.”

“It's a knack that my mother doesn't have. The only audiobook she ever did she had to leave after the first day, because she couldn't string two sentences together. It's about the only thing she can't do.”

“I adore tattoos. They're not painful; you just get an urge to swear a lot.”

“There are a lot of people who are very willing to put my mother on a pedestal, which is a lonely existence. She wants to dispute that so much that she will literally do anything for anybody.”

“Ironically at drama school I was told I didn't have a voice conducive for radio.”

“I happen to think Ruth Wilson is jaw-droppingly brilliant.”

“The way I got through thinking that I was very boring and very unsparkly was by being the first person in the bar and being the person that bought the drinks for everyone.”