Quotes from Roger Moore

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

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

Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.

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.

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

I was considered chubby as a teen.

In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

There is nothing glamorous about death.

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.

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

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

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

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.

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.