Quotes by Ron Moody - Page 1

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.
Ron Moody / Actor
Age
Actors
Wanted
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I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.
Ron Moody / Actor
Onward
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Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.
Ron Moody / Actor
Film
Miracle
Play
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Summer of 1967 was one of the happiest times of my life.
Ron Moody / Actor
Life My Life Summer
Happiest
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I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.
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Sociology
Professor
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Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.
Ron Moody / Actor
Action
Regret
Responsibility
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I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.
Ron Moody / Actor
No Regrets
Actions
Regrets
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Fate destined me to play 'Fagin.' It was the part of a lifetime.
Ron Moody / Actor
Destined
Fate
Lifetime
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My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.
Ron Moody / Actor
Comedy
Portrayal
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I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.
Ron Moody / Actor
Insecure
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Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.
Ron Moody / Actor
Different Ways
Plunge
Pressure
React
Some People
Ways
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I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.
Ron Moody / Actor
Economics
Psychology
Sociology
Grant
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I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy.
Ron Moody / Actor
Apathy
Mirrors
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I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.
Ron Moody / Actor
Filling
Gaps
Hall
Reaction
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Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.
Ron Moody / Actor
Destined
Fate
Lifetime
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I'll never forget seeing 'Guys and Dolls' over and over. I used to sit up in the coliseum watching this magnificent musical. Brilliant.
Ron Moody / Actor
Brilliant
Dolls
Magnificent
Never Forget
Never Forget Forget Never
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The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.
Ron Moody / Actor
Reinventing
Always World People
Develop
World People Always
Sadly
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I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'
Ron Moody / Actor
Collecting
Eccentric
Improvised
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Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.
Ron Moody / Actor
Jobs
Considerate
People
Thinking
People Doing See
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Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.
Ron Moody / Actor
Differences
Georgia
Ghouls
Theatre
Village
Develop
Lionel
Time Me Differences
Rivalries
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My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.
Ron Moody / Actor
Bits
Canvas
Colour
Needs
Night
Training
Words
Adding
Fill
Polishing
Start
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For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
Ron Moody / Actor
Artist
Believe
Belly
Laughing
Rehearsal
Variety
Work Your Me
Believes
Fix
Work Me Your
Laughs
Performance
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I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.
Ron Moody / Actor
Worthy
Settled
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If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.
Ron Moody / Actor
Jealousy
Greed
Mankind
Our Time
Petty
Sitting
Stupid
Time Bomb
Bomb
Wars
Destroy
Worrying
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I've worked with the old dames and knights - Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson - they're the most incredibly humble, kindly people because they are so big that they don't need to be unpleasant.
Ron Moody / Actor
Incredibly
Ralph
Unpleasant
Worked
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The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.
Ron Moody / Actor
Big Mistake
Flew
Oscars
Acknowledged
Wanting
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I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.
Ron Moody / Actor
Film Industry
New Things
No Regrets
Work New America
Regrets
Offered
Recession
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My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.
Ron Moody / Actor
Inhibited
Proudest
Reviewing
Suspect
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I think I'm a straight actor who occasionally does musicals; most people think I'm an eccentric comedian. It's amazing how many years you can spend in this business just sorting out something as simple and basic as that.
Ron Moody / Actor
Comedian
Eccentric
Sorting
Musicals
Occasionally
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My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.
Ron Moody / Actor
Delivery
Ham
Amateur
Henry
Uncle
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I don't think a professional agent or theatre manager would say my career had gone as well as perhaps it should have after that first 'Oliver!' success, but then again I was never really intending to have a career in the professional theatre in the first place.
Ron Moody / Actor
Agent
First Place
Intending
Manager
Oliver
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There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!
Ron Moody / Actor
Boys
Greatness
Names
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