Quotes About Intrigue

I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

I'm sure, in real life, spying is boring - there's probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that's how movies get made.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy of any good book, but part of it is the moral stakes there.

For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

I always like to say our shows should be something that, you know, before 10 o'clock, if your kid wanders into the room, they should be able to glance at the TV, watch what's happening, but not quite know what's happening. That's always my standard.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.