Roger Moore Quotes

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Roger Moore

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 14, 1927

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.

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I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

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

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I would have loved to play a real baddie.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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