Being Quote by Mark Ivanir

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

— Edward Snowden

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

— Mark Rylance

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

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

— Daryl Sabara

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

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

I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a…

— Florence Pugh

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

— Matthew Rhys

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

— Elizabeth Hurley

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

— Ally Carter

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre