Florence Pugh Quotes

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

I love the spy genre.

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

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

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.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

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

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

I'm clearly not an international man of mystery.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

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

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

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

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

I always liked spy stories.

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

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

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

There are few archbishops in espionage. He's on our side and that's all that matters. Besides, one needn't ask him to one's club.