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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.

From Christian McKay

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

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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.

From 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.

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

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

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

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