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It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

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.

Frank Abagnale

The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.

Frank Abagnale

While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly.

Frank Abagnale

Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

Frank Abagnale

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

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale

You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.

Frank Abagnale

Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale

There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card.

Frank Abagnale

I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.

Frank Abagnale

The Internet can be used to hurt many people.

Frank Abagnale

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

Frank Abagnale

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

Frank Abagnale

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.

Frank Abagnale

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

Frank Abagnale

I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero.

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale

When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

Frank Abagnale

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

Frank Abagnale

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

Frank Abagnale

People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.

Frank Abagnale

People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.

Frank Abagnale

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale

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

Frank Abagnale

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

Frank Abagnale

We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.

Frank Abagnale

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

Frank Abagnale

It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale

Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.

Frank Abagnale

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.

Frank Abagnale