Roger Moore Biography

On himself:

“I was pretty, so pretty that actresses didn’t want to work with me.”

“Good food and wine are among my true indulgences. But nothing, absolutely nothing has the same nostalgic pull on my palate as the memory of clandestine baked potatoes over an open fire.”

“[The knighthood] meant far more to me than if I had got it for acting…. I was proud because I received it on behalf of UNICEF as a whole and for all it has achieved over the years.”

“Thus, paradoxically, it was realising that most of life is a joke and a load of old flannel, that has made my own life so good.”

On James Bond:

"To me, the Bond situations are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy and yet, everybody knows he's a spy. Every bartender in the world offers him martinis that are shaken, not stirred. What kind of serious spy is recognized everywhere he goes? It's outrageous. So you have to treat the humour outrageously as well. My personality is entirely different than previous Bonds. I'm not that cold-blooded killer type. Which is why I play it mostly for laughs."

“Both Sean and I will be forgotten after everybody sees Pierce.” [After seeing Pierce Brosnan playing Bond in ‘GoldenEye’ (1995)]

Others:

“My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.”

“But if asked which of my co-stars had the biggest effect and impact on me, I’d say, without hesitation, Eleanor Parker.”

“You’re not a star ‘til they can spell your name in Vladivostok.”