Roger Moore Quotes

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

- Roger Moore

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

- Roger Moore

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

- Roger Moore

I would have loved to study medicine, but I was lucky to have come into the profession that I loved. I may not have been very good at it, but I loved it.

- Roger Moore

I do a lot of cooking; we eat a lot of fish, but I try not to make fattening things.

- Roger Moore

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

- Roger Moore

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

- Roger Moore

You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.

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What was good about 'Moonraker' was that we had Jaws back, because after 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' he became a well-loved villain.

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I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

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During my early acting years, I was told that to succeed, you needed personality, talent, and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me, it's been 99% luck.

- Roger Moore

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

- Roger Moore

I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.

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I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

- Roger Moore

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

- Roger Moore

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

- Roger Moore

Bond has afforded me a great personal passport, which I use for UNICEF.

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It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

- Roger Moore

I was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.

- Roger Moore

I'm often asked, 'Who has you worked with who you really thought was great?' and I think Eleanor Parker was the first and one of the only who was a really accomplished actress, a really caring actress, who was most unselfish, and I was secretly in love with her.

- Roger Moore

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

- Roger Moore

Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.

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You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

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A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

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My iPhone has become rather precious because of all my music on it; every night, we set it for 20 minutes before we fall asleep to listen to some Mozart.

- Roger Moore

I was considered chubby as a teen.

- Roger Moore

When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

- Roger Moore

When I was playing James Bond, it was the best job in the world. I mean, it was hard work, all that filming and travelling and tedium on set, but I earned a lot of money, and it was not a taxing job. I just had to say, 'Shaken, not stirred.'

- Roger Moore

I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world.

- Roger Moore

Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time.

- Roger Moore

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

- Roger Moore

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

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I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

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Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

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I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

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The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

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'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

- Roger Moore

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

- Roger Moore

Sammy Davis Jr. was a real movie buff who loved nothing better than being around a film studio - whether he was working or not.

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Many take the roles home with them and live the part. I'm quite happy to leave mine at the studio and return home as I left: simple old Roger Moore.

- Roger Moore

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

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We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

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The Bond situations to me are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy, and yet everybody knows he's a spy.

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I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.

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Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.

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When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.

- Roger Moore

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

- Roger Moore

Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'

- Roger Moore

Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

- Roger Moore

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

- Roger Moore

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

- Roger Moore

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

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I've been married four times and caused a great deal of hurt and upset around me.

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My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

- Roger Moore

When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Craig, though they hadn't even met him at that point.

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I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

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My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

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My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

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Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

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In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.

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Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films. The girls were getting younger, and I was just getting too old.

- Roger Moore

I don't think I've ever made any good financial decisions.

- Roger Moore

I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.

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I'd occasionally do some exercises at home, but I never cared for gyms.

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Selling your country's secrets is always wrong.

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I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

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I'm the worst Bond, according to the internet. Generally hated!

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Bond is fantasy.

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I personally didn't like the idea of Bond in space.

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I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

- Roger Moore

I was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty. Women used to complain about it!

- Roger Moore

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

- Roger Moore

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

- Roger Moore

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

- Roger Moore

My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

- Roger Moore

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

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I replaced Jim Garner in 'Maverick.' I replaced George Sanders in 'The Saint.' I've replaced everybody.

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No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

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Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.

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Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

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I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

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I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

- Roger Moore

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

- Roger Moore

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

- Roger Moore

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

- Roger Moore

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

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I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

- Roger Moore

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.

- Roger Moore

I'm used to bad reviews.

- Roger Moore

Rex Harrison could be a rather mean-spirited man, and he wasn't regarded very warmly by those who knew him.

- Roger Moore

Without doubt, you are recognized for the last role you played.

- Roger Moore

When I filmed 'Live And Let Die' with Jane Seymour, I kept my socks on in bed, as it was such a cold set.

- Roger Moore

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

- Roger Moore

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

- Roger Moore

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

- Roger Moore

There is nothing glamorous about death.

- Roger Moore

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

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I'm a little devil.

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It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

- Roger Moore

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

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I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

- Roger Moore

Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.

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Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

- Roger Moore

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

- Roger Moore

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

- Roger Moore

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

- Roger Moore

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

- Roger Moore

I was so pretty, actresses didn't want to work with me.

- Roger Moore

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

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I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

- Roger Moore

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

- Roger Moore

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

- Roger Moore

I'm proud to be British.

- Roger Moore

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

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I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

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I made some very forgettable films, but I liked them all when I was doing them.

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I'm very lucky.

- Roger Moore

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

- Roger Moore

I loved my mother and father.

- Roger Moore

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

- Roger Moore

I never stopped working.

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People are always reading things into the films.

- Roger Moore