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

"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."

"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.'"

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

"When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered."

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

"I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of."

"I make my home in Tulsa."

"Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret."

"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 teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic."

"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."

"It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"I learned early that class is universally admired."

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

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

"Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it."

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

"People care about others in their immediate network."

"My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS."

"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 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."

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

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

"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."

"One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information."

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

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

"You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to."

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

"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."

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

"I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay."

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

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

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

"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."