Quotes About Espionage

As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

There's no prospect that the Russians are going to send Snowden back. Snowden is in the land of spy swaps now. Putin is not going to give this guy up for nothing.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

I invented the historical spy novel.

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

I love the spy genre.

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world.