Christian McKay Quotes

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

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

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#3. Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

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#4. I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

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#5. Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

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#6. 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 wasn't that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.

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#7. I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

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#8. 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.

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#9. I want to record 'Goyescas' by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

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#10. Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

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#11. I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

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

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#13. I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

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#14. Some actors play themselves, don't they?

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#15. Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

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#16. Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

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

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#18. It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

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#19. 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.

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

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