Ally Carter Quotes

There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

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

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.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

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

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

I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

I always liked spy stories.

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.

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

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.

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

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

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.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

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

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.

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

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

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 always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

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

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.

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.