Quotes About Intrigue

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

An important part of any good mystery story like 'Original Sin' is that it's not just a game of 'Clue' with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it's far from the whole story.

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about where characters come from.

It's hard to surprise people with everything leaking on the Internet.

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

I want people to be surprised.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

What I love is that 'Game of Thrones' is always up for surprises.

Content that surprises the audience will attract them.

As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

He seemed full of some goodness she didn't understand

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

She had eyes like strange sins.