Intrigue Quotes

I don`t think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: "Life should never be boring."

Do I believe in magic? ... No. I don`t think so. But romantic magic? Oh, sure, yes, that kind of magic, absolutely. There has to be magic in everything you do. That`s what make it exciting. There has to be some intrigue, and there has to be some mystery. I like that - I like things that are mysterious.

Hollywood, where an intrigue and a victim are born every time two people meet.

Well, when I first got sent the script to The Assignment (1997), I thought, `Why don`t they offer this to Andy Garcia?` And it turned out they did. I said, `Oh, OK`. I had a little bit of a question of `How the hell am I gonna be believable?` Or `Will it be that much of a question in the audience`s mind that I`m supposed to be Venezuelan?` So, we went with the brown contacts for Carlos and darkened my skin, worked with a good dialogue coach. And then when I heard Andy Garcia was playing an Irish cop in Sidney Lumet`s movie (Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)), I stopped worrying about it. But that`s one of the great things about being an actor. We get to play dress up. And that`s what this movie was for me. Wigs, beards, mustaches, dialogues. Intrigue. It was a tremendous amount of hard work, but fun work for me.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

I don`t consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

It is a very interesting piece,'� he says. 'It has been around a long time and this is a particularly good, vital and lively production full of laughs, gayety and a lot of wit. I think part of the intrigue of the play and the plot is the relationship with Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins. Pickering is always there as a kind of buffer, soother of egos, perhaps. And it`s just a very good dramatic piece of theatre.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Ballet`s image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.