Christian McKay Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

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

“Some actors play themselves, don't they?”

“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.”

“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.”