Tom Hiddleston Quotes

I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

Spontaneous operations performed by individuals and cells here and there over the whole world, without connections between them, have put the local and international intelligence apparatus in a state of confusion, as arresting the members of aborted cells does not influence the operational activities of others who are not connected with them.

I worked in the Mossad for a few years.

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.

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

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

As a former F.B.I. special agent who conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that foreign intelligence services do not operate on the basis of explicit agreements or even actions that, standing alone, constitute criminal activity.

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

Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.