Lucas Till Quotes

I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

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

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.