with John Freeman, Editor, New Statesman

"I'm up here working, so if you won't shut up, go home. And if you won't shut up or go home, I'm going home" (Finney addressing a 'Billy Liar' audience)
"Forget about booking me a fancy hotel suite — I'm staying the week with my folks at Salford" (News of the World)
"Gas bills, coal bills, laundry bills - everybody has them. But for me they're too much. They defeat me" (Daily Mail)
"When I'm good, the play is bloody marvellous. When I'm bad, it's awful" (Daily Mirror)
"I am not interested in making a tremendous amount of money. Just enough to enable me to write out the odd cheque for twenty-five pounds or a hundred pounds". (Daily Herald)
"I hate being committed—to a girl, or a film producer, or being a certain kind of big screen image." (Evening Standard)
"I want to be a star because I can act, not because my name happens to be as well known as a much plugged detergent". (Daily Mirror)