Nathan Fillion

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

Canadian Actor

Spencer Boldman

I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.

American Actor

Sherman Alexie

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

American Writer

Jello Biafra

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

American Musician

Florence Pugh

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 very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.

English Actress

Nathan Englander

For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

American Soldier

Keri Russell

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.

American Actress

Julia Child

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

American Chef

Princess Nokia

The world is going to come to a place where we're all being spied on and nothing is private.

Used for someone whose job is to collect secret information, often in covert operations.

Secret Profession

'Spy' often implies a level of danger and risk, especially in times of conflict.

Linked with Danger

A spy can pretend to work for one side while actually working for the other.

Double Agent

The verb 'to spy' often implies an invasion of privacy or unethical behavior.

Negative Connotation

Sometimes, 'to spy' can be seen as protective, like monitoring for security reasons.

Not Always Wrong

The verb form focuses on the intent to gather information rather than just watching.

Informative Intent

The noun can refer to surveillance methods like hidden cameras and electronic monitoring.

Modern Surveillance

A spy can sometimes mean a private investigator who gathers information quietly.

Private Investigator

A spy may listen to conversations secretly to collect information.

Eavesdropping Context

 of quantum information science, a growing field studying how to use the laws of the strange quantum world in our macroscopic world, like in quantum cryptography, so spies can send secure messages to each other, or quantum computing, for cracking secret codes.

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