Roger moore

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

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

We all have our dreams.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I loved my mother and father.

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.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

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

Of course, I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.

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?

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

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

When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.

I personally didn't like the idea of Bond in space. Having to fly around on a wire was not particularly comfortable, and I didn't like the outfit. It had a terrible helmet.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Football is being used as a language in that project...The vital message being communicated to the boys and young men is about safe sex, the use of condoms and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS.

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

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

My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

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!

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

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.

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

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

The new Bond film, will be a big, big hit, because every Bond film is an event. Fathers take their sons to it; probably grandfathers. It's been a long time, and I think that the success of Bond is because the audiences have never been cheated by the producers. They always spend every penny, put it on the screen, and then the things that people expect to see in a Bond film - big action scenes, glamorous ladies - it's pure escapism.

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 would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

Trail conflicts can and do occur among different user groups, among different users within the same user group, and as a result of factors not related to users' trail activities at all. In fact, no actual contact among trail users need occur for conflict to be felt.

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

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

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.

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

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.

You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.

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

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.

Being known for Bond, certainly when you're in foreign countries, makes people curious. You get to see presidents because their wives were curious; their children were curious about Bond or The Saint or whatever. Then once you have your foot through the door, you can then let them see that you're serious about what you're talking about, and not just a twit.

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

There is nothing glamorous about death.

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

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

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

Go out there and thrill me.

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

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

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

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

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.

Go out there and row faster.

Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

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

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.

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

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.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

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

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.

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.

I'm the fourth best James Bond.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

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

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

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.

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Roger Moore: Biography and Life Work

Roger Moore was a notable Actor. The story of Roger Moore began on 14 October 1927 in Stockwell, London. The legacy of Roger Moore continues today, following their passing on 23 May 2017 in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray Ian Fleming 's fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions / MGM Studios film series, playing the character in seven feature films : Live and Let Die (1973), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985). Moore's seven appearances as Bond are the most of any actor in the Eon-produced entries.

Legacy and Personal Influence

Personally, Roger Moore was married to Doorn van Steyn (divorced), Dorothy Squires (divorced), Luisa Mattioli (divorced), Kristina Tholstrup. Historically, their work is best remembered for James Bond.

Major Contributions

  • James Bond
  • from 1973 to 1985
  • The Saint
  • from 1962 to 1969

Philosophical Views and Reflections

Moore said, about his decision to leave the role of James Bond, that "It wasn't because of the physical stuff as I could still play tennis for two hours a day and do a one-hour workout every morning. Physically I was okay, but facially I started looking...well, the leading ladies were young enough to be my granddaughter and it becomes disgusting." In his personal opinion, he looked too old to be "hanging around women in their early twenties without it appearing creepy." Moore did not act on screen for five years after he stopped playing Bond; in 1990, he appeared in several films, as well as in the writer-director Michael Feeney Callan 's television series My Riviera . He then starred in the film Bed & Breakfast , which was shot in 1989; and also had a large role in the 1996 film The Quest . In 1997, he starred as the Chief in Spice World . At the age of 73, he played a flamboyant homosexual man in Boat Trip (2002) with Cuba Gooding Jr.

On 16 October 2012, Bond on Bond was published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films. The book, with many pictures, is based on Moore's own memories, thoughts, and anecdotes about all things 007, with some of the profits of the book going to UNICEF.

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