Kyle Quotes

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

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

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

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

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

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

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

I always liked spy stories.

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.

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

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.

It was given for all purposes to which a secret service fund should or could be applied to the public benefit—for spies, if the gentleman pleases.

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.

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

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

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

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.