Quotes About Intrigue

Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.

The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.

It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!

Crazy players love me. I don't know why.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

I'm very good at plot.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

I like complicated characters.

I like playing interesting, complicated women.