Roger Moore

“Bond has afforded me a great personal passport, which I use for UNICEF.”

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

“When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I be...”

“I was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 was considered chubby as a teen.”

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

“Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.”

“When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Craig, though they hadn't even met him at that point.”

“I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.”

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

“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.”

“Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.”

“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 oursel...”

“Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.”

“Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scrape...”