40 Movie Quotes about Espionage (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about espionage, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 We have a method for spies and intruders rather like hornets protecting their hive.

Quote from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

2 What is your code name? -Code name, huh? Code name? I don't have a code name. I never had a code name, lunatic!

Quote from The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

3 This is not a test. The penetration is live. The target is unaware.

Robert Redford as Martin Bishop in Sneakers (1992)

4 There's a war out there, old friend, a world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information, what we see and hear, how we work, what we think. It's all about the information.

Ben Kingsley as Cosmo in Sneakers (1992)

5 I spied because I care!

Frank Oz as Miss Piggy in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

6 It smells like a spy.

Quote from Space Jam

7 One of the truest utterances of the great French general, Marshal Foch, was his statement to a group of his espionage agents. 'You will die a thousand deaths, before oblivion comes, while the man in the trenches dies but once.'

Quote from The 39 Steps (1937)

8 That's top secret. How do you know about them? -From a Russian translation of one of your service manuals. Sorry about that.

Sean Connery as James Bond in Never Say Never Again

9 We're sweeping every wirelessly accessible camera on the planet. Cell phones, laptops... If it's connected to a satellite, it's eyes and ears for us.

Quote from The Avengers (2012)

10 Give me a break. I don't think they bugged my tuna sandwich.

Tom Arnold as Albert Gibson in True Lies