Frank Abagnale Quotes
Best 19 Catch Me If You Can Quotes by Frank Abagnale
Catch Me If You Can Quotes
“A con artist’s only weapon is his brain.”
“A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.”
“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.”
“Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.”
“As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at – that's what I did to death – and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.”
“Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.”
“Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.”
“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.”
“I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.”
“I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.”
“I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies.”
“I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.”
“I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks.”
“My one sensuous fault was women. I had a Cyprian lust for them.”
“Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong.”
“The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.”
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“In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.”
“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.”
“When you're up there hundreds of people will claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one will buy you a cup of coffee.”
“Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.”
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