Timothy Hutton Quotes

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

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.

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

I love con-men characters in film.

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.

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

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.

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

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

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

Drug people are the very vermin of humanity.... Occasionally we must adopt their dress and tactics.

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

I'm a blagger by trade.

I love a sexy caper show, and I love shows about con artists.

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.

I woke up one morning to an email from my friend Alex that said she'd had her bag stolen. Ordinarily, I'm quite quick on the uptake, but - maybe because of the way it was worded - I immediately replied, 'What??????' As soon as I hit send, I realised I was being scammed. But then they replied, and I thought, 'Well, why not?'

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.