Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale, 2009

Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) was a check forger and impostor for five years in the 1960s. Currently he runs Abagnale and Associates, a financial fraud consultancy company. His life story provided the inspiration for the feature film Catch Me If You Can, nominally based on his ghost-written biography of the same name.

Quotes

• "If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'."
  • When asked his opinion of the Killian memos.
  • Frank Abagnale Jr. - Biography, Internet Movie Database, accessed 2008-10-12

• “What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.”
  • Frank Abagnale on how easy it is with modern technology to commit fraud
  • Frank Abagnale Jr. - Biography, Internet Movie Database, accessed 2008-10-12

• "Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards"
  • Frank Abagnale, Abagnale & Associates Abagnale & Associates Website, accessed 2008-10-12

• I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.
  • Frank W. Abagnale (2000). Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake. ISBN 0767905385. Retrieved on 2008-10-12. 

Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, 2002

Published in 2002, Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake is the autobiographical life story of Frank W. Abagnale. Originally published in 1980

• I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
  • Ch.1 Pg.4(a), Ch.1 Pg. 11(b),Back cover(c), Ch.6 Pg.116(d)

• If I had to place any blame for my future nefarious actions, I'd put it on the Ford.That Ford fractured every moral fiber in my body. It introduced me to girls, and I didn't come to my senses for six years. They were wonderful years.
  • Ch.1 Pg.4(a), Ch.1 Pg. 11(b),Back cover(c), Ch.6 Pg.116(d)

• I stole every nickel, dime and dollar and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and bask on all the worlds most famous beaches.
  • Ch.1 Pg.4(a), Ch.1 Pg. 11(b),Back cover(c), Ch.6 Pg.116(d)

• Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification"
  • Ch.1 Pg.4(a), Ch.1 Pg. 11(b),Back cover(c), Ch.6 Pg.116(d)

About Frank Abagnale

• His chutzpah and his imagination in the scams and stings he pulled off were so imaginative and so courageous. Amazing. I loved the fact that he could pull off all of those professions. In a way, he's sort of the anti-hero that you root for, even though you know he's going to have to pay a price and go to jail
  • Steven Spielberg. on the set of the movie 'Catch Me if You Can'
  • Alec Cawthorne (2003-01-16). Steven Spielberg Catch Me if You Can Interview. BBC. Retrieved on 2008-10-12.

• He understood whatever those hidden mechanisms are that convince people to trust you. I kind of watched him and absorbed what I could from him.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio. on the set of the movie 'Catch Me if You Can'
  • Alec Cawthorne (2003-01-16). Leonardo DiCaprio Catch Me if You Can Interview. BBC. Retrieved on 2008-10-12.

• I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
  • Steven Spielberg.Webmaster. Abagnale & Associates - Home. Abagnale & Associates. Retrieved on 2008-10-12.

External links

• Abagnale & Associates