Top 88 Roger Moore Quotes

Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

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

Selling your country’s secrets is always wrong.

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

I’m very lucky.

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

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

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.’

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I’m a little devil.

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

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.

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

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

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m used to bad reviews.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

‘Skyfall’ was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

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

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

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

People are always reading things into the films.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

I never stopped working.

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

Bond is fantasy.

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

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.

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

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

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

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I’m proud to be British.

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

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

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 spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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