British Quote by Elizabeth Hurley

Many, many years ago before I got into comedy, I applied to be a spy for MI5. I got down to the last 30…

— Chris McCausland

I romanticized about it in my twenties, but I don't think I would have enjoyed being a spy. I worry too much.

— Mark Ivanir

I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.

— Katharine Gun

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

— Edward Snowden

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

— Christopher Koch

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

— Julia Child

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

— John Cusack

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

— Ally Carter

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I…

— Nelson DeMille

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

— Christopher Lee

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

— Alexa Chung