Do I have any potential as an actor? I don’t know. I’m still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over. Christian McKay Read Quote
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. Christian McKay Read Quote
I personally think ‘Chimes of Midnight’ is a much better film than ‘Citizen Kane.’ Christian McKay Read Quote
I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself. Christian McKay Read Quote
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. Christian McKay Read Quote
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. Christian McKay Read Quote
People say to me now, ‘Oh, you’ve given up the piano.’ How can you? Music is a virus. Christian McKay Read Quote