Roger Moore's Quotes

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

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

There is nothing glamorous about death.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

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

I love cash.

I loved my mother and father.

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

I never stopped working.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.