My job is to be a spy – to be in public and live life and have experience. But, when you feel like you’re the focus, it’s really hard to do that. – Adam Driver
Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down. – Heather Brooke
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. – John le Carre
The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they’re with their wives and husbands. – John McAfee
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. – Ben Macintyre
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. – Agnes Smedley
I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring. – Alistair Petrie
I wasn’t a spy. I’d have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things. – Christopher Lee
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls. – Annie Jacobsen
Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that? – Alan Furst
Obviously, ‘Homeland’ is not just a spy thriller. It’s more than that, but ‘Tyrant’ will be a bit more of a palace drama. It’ll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well. – Adam Rayner
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely. – Buffalo Bill
‘Homeland’ is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun. – Adam Rayner
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I’d love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie. – Chris Diamantopoulos
Europeans don’t like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don’t spy. – David Ignatius
In 1996, when my first novel, ‘Masquerade,’ was published, I knew international thrillers – or spy novels, if you prefer – had been the domain of male authors for decades. – Gayle Lynds
Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life – I don’t like being in the spotlight. – Edward Snowden
Coming out of ‘Spy Kids,’ I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles. – Daryl Sabara