English - Actor | October 14, 1927 - May 23, 2017
When I filmed 'Live And Let Die' with Jane Seymour, I kept my socks on in bed, as it was such a cold set.
Roger Moore
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During my early acting years, I was told that to succeed, you needed personality, talent, and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me, it's been 99% luck.
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Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.
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When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.
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I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world.
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Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films. The girls were getting younger, and I was just getting too old.
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I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.
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Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'
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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.
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I'm often asked, 'Who has you worked with who you really thought was great?' and I think Eleanor Parker was the first and one of the only who was a really accomplished actress, a really caring actress, who was most unselfish, and I was secretly in love with her.
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I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.
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When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.
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