Quotes About Intrigue

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in a way it's similar to switching channels or surfing the web; I like people getting lulled into something and then taking them somewhere else.

It's crazy enough to be the person crawling through the bushes in Northern Ireland with a telescopic lens taking pictures - there are crazy people out there. But the idea that people want to go to sites and find out those spoilers... it's like if there was a website called Last Pages of Great Books, would you read that?

What happened between the sheets on the night of the royal wedding I cannot tell you. I was not there.

As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.

I love 'Harry Potter.'

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

I'm absolutely obsessed with conspiracies and have been since I was a kid.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

People came to my house in limos looking for WallWalkers, and they made emergency calls, breaking into our phone conversations trying to order them.

I think it's cool that people care so much where I'm going to end up or what I'm going to do.

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

She made a ravishing corpse.

There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.