25 Quotes by Christian McKay

I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.

I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around and said: 'No man is self-made;' and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary.

Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.

Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.