Ron Moody
Ron Moody

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

Summer of 1967 was one of the happiest times of my life.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Ron Moody
Ron Moody

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
Ron Moody

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.