Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Moore

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Sir Roger George Moore was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 1973 and 1985. Moore's seven appearances as Bond, from Live and Let Die to A View to a Kill, are the most of any actor in the Eon-produced entries.

English - Actor | October 14, 1927 - May 23, 2017

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

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

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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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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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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!

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

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I never stopped working.

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

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

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

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I'm a little devil.

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

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

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I was not born with tremendous ambition.

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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.

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I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

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

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Oh yes, I love gadgets.

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

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

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

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I'm used to bad reviews.

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

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

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

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I loved my mother and father.

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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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Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

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There is nothing glamorous about death.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I was considered chubby as a teen.

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

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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

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

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