Roger Moore Quotes

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I always try to make each character my own.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

It's amazing how you get to recreate somebody else's life on-screen. It's wonderful when you get responses like, 'You actually look like him.'

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.

I don't think the physical resemblance is as important as capturing the soul of the person that the actor is portraying. How much like Charlie Chaplin did Robert Downey Jr. look in 'Chaplin?' Did Meryl Steep actually resemble Nora Ephron in 'Heartburn?'

Every role I have played has had a bit of me in them.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

I play a huge variety of roles.

An actor has to embody a role.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'