Top 50 Roger Moore Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

6. “There is nothing glamorous about death.”

— Roger Moore

7. “I am a mixture of idealist and realist.”

— Roger Moore

8. “It’s wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.”

— Roger Moore

9. “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.”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

11. “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.”

— Roger Moore

12. “Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts.”

— Roger Moore

13. “My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.”

— Roger Moore

14. “Of course I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.”

— Roger Moore

15. “I’m the fourth best James Bond.”

— Roger Moore

16. “My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of ‘raises left eyebrow’ and ‘raises right eyebrow.’”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

19. “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.”

— Roger Moore

20. “No, I’m not at all adventurous. I’m terribly cowardly.”

— Roger Moore

21. “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.”

— Roger Moore

22. “I speak relatively little, except when I’m at home and I’m asking for things.”

— Roger Moore

23. “I don’t think I’ve ever made any good financial decisions.”

— Roger Moore

24. “I felt so full of rage against my fellow man. How could man be so inhumane that he could create weapons that tear children’s bodies and lives apart?”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

26. “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!”

— Roger Moore

27. “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.”

— Roger Moore

28. “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 luc.”

— Roger Moore

29. “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.”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

31. “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?”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

33. “It’s easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.”

— Roger Moore

34. “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.”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

38. “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.”

— Roger Moore

39. “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.”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

42. “To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.”

— Roger Moore

43. “I don’t like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.”

— Roger Moore

44. “I loved my mother and father.”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

47. “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.”

— Roger Moore

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

— Roger Moore

49. “Whenever I’m asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.”

— Roger Moore

50. “I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.”

— Roger Moore