International Intrigue Quotes

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's somebody I play.

I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one day. Action is very cinematic.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

The thing with the Bourne movies is that they're so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?

The United States is the world's best hope; but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

I've only ever been on a long-runner with 'Spooks.'

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.

The whole Bond thing has gotten so dour with the direction they've been going in, it feels like they need to move back to Pierce Brosnan-style fun Bond again. If they did that, Dan Stevens would be the perfect choice.

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was not economic, besides being morally wrong. Slavery was destined to be abolished, whether for economic reasons or moral reasons matters not, but the international intriguers were not going to wait for voluntary abolition to rob them of their trump card.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.