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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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" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "

" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "

" 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. "

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

" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "

" 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. "

" 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 learned early that class is universally admired. "

" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "

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

" 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. "

" I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that. "

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

" 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. "

" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "

" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "

" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "

" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "

" Every form of payment has some risk associated with it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "

" If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame. "

" I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes. "

" 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.' "

" Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.' "

" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "

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