Quotes About Intrigue

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

I think it's cool to provoke something in people.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

We all go through phases; in one such phase, I was interested to know about the psychic phenomenon.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.

You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

My idea is to paint paintings so that when you walk into a room, I'm pulling you in, or that makes you suddenly stop and wonder: 'What is this? There is something groovy, something else going on here.' Also, I want to give you what is obvious and what is not obvious to the eye.

When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It's like, why are you pulling on me?

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

I hadn't seen 'The Purge' until I was trying to do the research for it. But it was my friends and my cousins, in particular, who came to me not too long before the audition process and asked me if I had seen it. They were talking about how great it was. I was engaged in the opportunity to do the film because of their intrigue with the franchise.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

I first felt the addictive power of 'Game of Thrones' when I was prime minister, living in a world where power was also pursued relentlessly, albeit far less colourfully. Certainly, the characters of my world were nowhere near as good looking or exotically dressed.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

I just love characters that are complex, that you can dig into and keep itching the scratch and never quite be satisfied because they have enough going on with them that it's like a giant puzzle.

When I was younger I used to watch 'Flavor Flav's.'

I want to act in a Tarantino movie and be a vixen in one of his films. Maybe I'll secretly drop an episode of 'Flesh and Bone' in his mailbox and see what he thinks.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.