Frank Abagnale Quotes
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I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
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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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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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We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
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Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.
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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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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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Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.
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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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I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught.
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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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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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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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I stole every nickel, dime and dollar and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and bask on all the worlds most famous beaches.
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Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent.