Frank Abagnale Quotes

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

Frank Abagnale

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Ability

• I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Kid

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Plain
  • Gimmick

• One of my grandfathers was a blacksmith, and all the plumbers and carpenters and electricians, people who did things with their hands, thought of themselves as artists because they were good at doing things. They were proud of their making things.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • People
  • Good
  • Proud

• Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • People
  • Technology
  • Mean

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Very
  • Dignity

• The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Best
  • Ballet
  • Dancing

• One, two, three like a bird I sing, 'cause you given me the most beautiful set of wings.I'm so glad you're here today, 'cause tomorrow I might have to go and fly away. Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Today
  • Beautiful
  • Fly

• A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • People
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