Frank Abagnale Quotes
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A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.
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Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.
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I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.
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I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that.
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Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.
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You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
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Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
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I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.
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When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
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You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.
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We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.
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You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.
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The Internet can be used to hurt many people.
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My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.
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I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
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There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
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I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.
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In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
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If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform.
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Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.
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We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
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My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
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I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side.
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I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful.