Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes

I always liked spy stories.

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 that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

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

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

I love the spy genre.

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

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

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

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.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

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.