Quotes About Undercover

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow, ' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

I was on a few surveillance jobs as part of a big team. I would be the person to follow the subject on foot when the need arose. But most of the time, we were sitting in a car doing nothing.

He put his finger to his lips. I'm incognito. Call me Fred.

detrás del mostrador o en la trastienda

underground

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

In Berlin, a laundromat was raided because it was a front for a brothel. You know what tipped police off? Men doing laundry.

Kind of a treble agent, see?" Schaffer said in a patient explaining tone. "That's one better that double.

Kind of a treble agent, see?" Schaffer said in a patient explaining tone. "That's one better than double.

I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the boy in front of me was a trained operative, so Zach knew better. And besides, Zach new me.

I also packed explosives." -Liz

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

Every good operative knows that the world is small, but the planet is big.

Here's the thing you need to know about surveillance: it's boring. Sure, sometimes we blow stuff up and jump off buildings and/or moving trains, but most of the time we just hang around waiting for something to happen (a fact that almost never makes it into the movies), so I might have felt pretty silly if I were a normal girl and not a highly trained secret-agent-type person as I sat on that park bench, trying to act normal when, by definition, I'm anything but.

Kat had already passed for a Franciscan nun during a particularly difficult job in Vatican City).

People call me The Chameleon here—if you go to spy school, I guess that's a pretty good nickname.

In the '80s, I wore these glasses because I was trying to look like a square to outsmart the po-po, you feel me? It was what we call 'throw off methods.' So I wear little glasses.

Given that I often wear shorts with a T-shirt, baseball cap, and backpack most days, a crew-neck shirt gives me the appearance of an undercover cop on the way to a sting operation at a summer camp.