Words matter. These are the best Finty Williams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough.
I think Ma is more honest than I am sometimes.
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.
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.
I can’t think of many places I’d rather spend Saturday afternoon than in a tattoo parlor.
If she wasn’t my mother, I’d want her to be my best friend.
I don’t know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.
Dad was much more critical. I did a comedy in Windsor and he came round afterwards with a load of paperwork and said nothing about my performance – just: ‘I’ve got some forms for you to sign.’
Saturday afternoon I’ll go shopping. Always. I can find things to buy wherever I am.
I don’t spend as much time with my mother as I would love to because she is always working.
My father was my mother’s greatest flag waver.
Who wouldn’t want to work with someone you so utterly respect and you’re such good friends with?
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.
Some jobs you take because they are good for the heart.
I happen to think Ruth Wilson is jaw-droppingly brilliant.
I’m me, and I’ve got the cards that I’ve been dealt.
I actually wanted to be a dancer, though I doubt anyone now would pay to see me in a leotard!
My mother very bravely put me into rehab two weeks after my father died.
My mother would strike me off if I didn’t say theatre was incredibly important, and when you see something like ‘Network’ at the National Theatre, my god it’s important. You feel like you can’t breathe.
I adore tattoos. They’re not painful; you just get an urge to swear a lot.
I love being surrounded by my family at weekends.
Ironically at drama school I was told I didn’t have a voice conducive for radio.
I don’t drink any more so I switched my obsession to musicals.
I spent most of my teenage years in the National Theatre.
I want to play Miss Adelaide in ‘Guys and Dolls.’ Really badly.
