Roger Moore - biography

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

“I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.”

“I’m typecast anyway - as me.”

“It used to take them hours and hours in make-up to give me character.  Now I’ve got the character they take it all out.”

“The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.”

“I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.”

“There is nothing glamorous about death.”

“My pictures always seem to be filmed in places that I can’t pronounce.”

“Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.”

“I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger.  He was my idol.”

“I long for the days of the old Hollywood with the longterm contracts.  The actors were sent out to play by the pool and called in from time to time for a bit of filming.  Now we seem to spend half of our time getting incorporated.”

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

“I like Bond.  But it’s silly to take it seriously.  It’s just a great big comic strip.”

“Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks.  Myself, I was blessed with modesty.”

“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.”

“If I kept all my bad notices, I’d need two houses.”

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

“You’re not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.”

“A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.”

“I am a mixture of idealist and realist.”

“I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.”

“I don’t like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.”

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

“I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.”

“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.”

“I speak relatively little, except when I’m at home and I’m asking for things.”

“I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.”

“I’m sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.”

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

“It’s wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.”

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

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.”

Roger Moore has appeared in the following films:
The Kid Brother (1927)
The Storm (1930)
Dancing Sweeties (1930)
Carolina (1934)
Death on the Diamond (1934)
The Gold Ghost (1934)
Night Life of the Gods (1935)
Sworn Enemy (1936)
The Boss Didn’t Say Good Morning (1937)
Andy Hardy’s Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things (1938)
Of Human Hearts (1938)
Paradise for Three (1938)
Strange Glory (1938)
The First Hundred Years (1938)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
I Take This Woman (1940)
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942)
Fingers at the Window (1942)
This Time for Keeps (1942)
Girl Crazy (1943)
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
Meet the People (1944)
Perfect Strangers (1945)
Act of Violence (1948)
Good Sam (1948)
Homecoming (1948)
Isn’t It Romantic? (1948)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)
Any Number Can Play (1949)
East Side, West Side (1949)
House of Strangers (1949)
Paper Orchid (1949)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
The Interrupted Journey (1949)
Trottie True (1949)
Francis (1950)
Key to the City (1950)
As Young as You Feel (1951)
Half Angel (1951)
It’s a Big Country (1951)
Let’s Make It Legal (1951)
One Wild Oat (1951)
The Strip (1951)
The Tall Target (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Meet Me at the Fair (1953)
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
Small Town Girl (1953)
The Clown (1953)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Interrupted Melody (1955)
The King’s Thief (1955)
Diane (1956)
Il Ratto delle sabine (1961)
The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)
The Fiction Makers (1968)
Crossplot (1969)
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Gold (1974)
Mission: Monte Carlo (1974)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
That Lucky Touch (1975)
Shout at the Devil (1976)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The Wild Geese (1978)
Escape to Athena (1979)
Moonraker (1979)
North Sea Hijack (1979)
Sunday Lovers (1980)
The Sea Wolves (1980)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Octopussy (1983)
The Naked Face (1984)
A View to a Kill (1985)
Bullseye! (1990)
The Quest (1996)
The Enemy (2001)
Boat Trip (2002)
Agent Crush (2008)
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)