Quotes from Roger Moore

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

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

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

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

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!

Bond has afforded me a great personal passport, which I use for UNICEF.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I never stopped working.

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

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

The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

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

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

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

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

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.

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.