Quotes from Roger Moore


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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.


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


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


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


I loved my mother and father.


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.


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


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


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


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


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.


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


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


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


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


I am a mixture of idealist and realist.


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.


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!