Lynn Whitfield Quotes

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

I always liked spy stories.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

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.

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

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

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

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

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

All women are natural born espionage agents.

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

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

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

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

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

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

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

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.

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.