175 Quotes by Roger Moore

I’m not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you’ve failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.