Quotes from Roger Moore

I'm used to bad reviews.

Selling your country's secrets is always wrong.

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.

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

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

'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

Bond is fantasy.

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

I'm proud to be British.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

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.

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

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.

I'm a little devil.

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

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

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.