Quotes About Deception

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

I love the spy genre.

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

You know what? For myself, I kind of like the spy because it takes another guy out of coverage or another guy out of rushing.

When you keep telling yourself a lie, at some point you buy your own cover story, like a CIA spy or something.

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.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

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

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Sarah Huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every single day.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers