Freya Tingley Quotes

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

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

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

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

There is only one law of espionage—there are always going to be spies.

Secrecy is as essential to Intelligence as vestments to a Mass, or darkness to a spiritualist seance, and must at all costs be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Intelligence is about lies. If something is legal and above board, you would not need the CIA to do it.

You can probably forgive the top spy for lying about spying. Lying is part of the job description. It’s what spies do.

Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

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.

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.

Exposing the activities of a foreign intelligence service renders them ineffective, since it removes plausible deniability, which is the hallmark of covert intelligence operations.

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.

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