Alfred Molina Quotes

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

I know a con when I see one.

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.