Daily Inspiration Quote by Albert Finney

Praise like this from Albert Finney lands less as publicity fluff than as a small act of calibration. Finney wasn’t a blithe hype-man; his screen persona and off-screen reputation both carried a certain prickly intelligence, the sense of an actor who could smell sentimentality and didn’t care to perfume it. So when he says, twice, "I was very impressed with her, I really was", the repetition functions like a signature under oath. He’s not just complimenting; he’s preempting suspicion.

The opening "No" is doing quiet work. It implies a prior narrative he’s rejecting: maybe the idea that she was overpraised, out of her depth, or riding a wave of attention that didn’t match the craft. Finney pivots from dismissal to placement: "right up there with the best I've worked with". That’s a serious yardstick from someone who spent decades opposite heavyweights and who understood that set chemistry is earned, not wished into existence.

There’s also a faint politics-of-industry subtext. Male veterans praising a younger woman can carry patronizing undertones, but Finney’s phrasing resists that. He anchors the evaluation in labor ("worked with"), not charisma, beauty, or likability. The compliment becomes a defense of professionalism: she belongs in the top tier because she delivered in the only currency that matters on set - reliability, attention, and truth.

In context, it reads like a corrective note from a witness: a seasoned actor testifying that whatever myth is forming around her, the work is real.