Happy Birthday Sir Roger Moore!

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

Natürlich bin ich frustriert wenn ich extreme Armut betrachte, das Leiden scheint nie zu enden.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

Ich gebe ungern Interviews, weil ich immer Schwierigkeiten habe, mich an die Lügen zu erinnern, die ich beim letzten Mal erzählt habe.

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

Nicht viele von uns sind bereit, alles aufzugeben, was sie besitzen.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

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

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

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

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.

Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

I loved my mother and father.

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

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

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

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I'm a little devil.

I don't think I've ever made any good financial decisions.

I'm proud to be British.

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

I'm the worst Bond, according to the internet. Generally hated!

I love cash.

I'm used to bad reviews.

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.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

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

I'm very lucky.

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

People are always reading things into the films.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I never stopped working.

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

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

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

I've been married four times and caused a great deal of hurt and upset around me.

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

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

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

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.

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

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

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.

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

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.

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.

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