I replaced Jim Garner in 'Maverick.' I replaced George Sanders in 'The Saint.' I've replaced everybody.
— Roger Moore
I was considered chubby as a teen.
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 think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.
When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.
When I filmed 'Live And Let Die' with Jane Seymour, I kept my socks on in bed, as it was such a cold set.
Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.
Sammy Davis Jr. was a real movie buff who loved nothing better than being around a film studio - whether he was working or not.
I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.
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.
My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.
I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.
I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.
What was good about 'Moonraker' was that we had Jaws back, because after 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' he became a well-loved villain.
Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.
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.
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.
I made some very forgettable films, but I liked them all when I was doing them.
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.
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.
Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films. The girls were getting younger, and I was just getting too old.
Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.
I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.
Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.
I would have loved to play a real baddie.
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.
I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!
I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.
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.
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.
I personally didn't like the idea of Bond in space.
Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.
Bond has afforded me a great personal passport, which I use for UNICEF.
I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.
I do a lot of cooking; we eat a lot of fish, but I try not to make fattening things.
I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.
Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'
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.
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.
In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.
Rex Harrison could be a rather mean-spirited man, and he wasn't regarded very warmly by those who knew him.
Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.
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 was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty. Women used to complain about it!
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'd occasionally do some exercises at home, but I never cared for gyms.
Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!
Bond is fantasy.
I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.
Without doubt, you are recognized for the last role you played.
