Frank Abagnale

“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.”

“Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.”

“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.'”

“At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000.”

“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.”

“I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.”

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

“Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.”