Christian McKay Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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