Val Guest Quotes


"Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore."
- Val Guest
(Related: Actors, Fun)

"Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth."
- Val Guest
(Related: America, Bombs, Day, Earth, Fire, Russia, Testing)

"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself."
- Val Guest
(Related: Time)

"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis."
- Val Guest
(Related: Man, Poison)

"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know."
- Val Guest
(Related: First, Interest, Now)

"No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such."
- Val Guest
(Related: Sex)

"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
- Val Guest
(Related: Comedy, Film, Job)

"I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy."
- Val Guest
(Related: Comedy, Job)

"I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond."
- Val Guest
(Related: Stars)

"At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow."
- Val Guest
(Related: Thought, Comedy)

"And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years."
- Val Guest
(Related: Want, Years)

"And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond."
- Val Guest
(Related: Character)

"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
- Val Guest
(Related: Film, First, Murder)