Roger Moore

“I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.”

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

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

“I was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty. Women used to complain about it!”

“Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.”

“Selling your country's secrets is always wrong.”

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

“I was considered chubby as a teen.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.”

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

“I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.”

“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.”

“It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.”

“It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.”

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

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

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

“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.”