Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "

Related Quotes:

" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "

" I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. "

" 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. "

" If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents. "

" We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern. "

" When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. "

" It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "

" 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. "

" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "

" 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. "

" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "

" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "

" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "

" I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City. "

" 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. "

" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "

" I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father. "

" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "

" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "

" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "

" Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media. "

" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "

" 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. "

" I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.' "

" Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. "