Quotes from Finty Williams

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My father was my mother's greatest flag waver.

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

I actually wanted to be a dancer, though I doubt anyone now would pay to see me in a leotard!

I love being surrounded by my family at weekends.

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

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

I've got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me - it was a real masterclass - on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.

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

It's an amazingly daunting prospect to play any part you've seen someone else play brilliantly.

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 had one critic who wrote: 'Finty Williams is like her mother in looks if not in talent.' It'll be on my gravestone.

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

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.'

I'd love to do a play with Ma but I don't know whether that's like literally filling in your own grave and putting the gravestone on top.

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 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.

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

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