Zitat des Tages von Roger Moore:
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.
Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.
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.
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.
I made some very forgettable films, but I liked them all when I was doing them.
Many take the roles home with them and live the part. I'm quite happy to leave mine at the studio and return home as I left: simple old Roger Moore.
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.
I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.
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.
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.
It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.
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 am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.
Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.
I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.
My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.
I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.
Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I don't think I've ever made any good financial decisions.
Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.
I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.
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.
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.