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" Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song. "

" 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. "

" A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. "

" Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy. "

" Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA. "

" But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. "

" Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles. "

" Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy. "

" Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency. "

" 'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun. "

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

Christine Keeler

" I always liked spy stories. "

" I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one - a Russian spy. "

" I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time. "

" I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine. "

" I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. "

" I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood. "

" If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie. "

Chris Diamantopoulos

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

" I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. "

" I invented the historical spy novel. "

" I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life. "

" I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. "

" I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carre's 'Smiley' novels are spy stories. "

Michiko Kakutani

" In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades. "

" In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. And I ended up getting to work with both of them. "

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

" I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. "

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

" I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel. "

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