Harry Anderson Quotes

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

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

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

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.

I love con-men characters in film.

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

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

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

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.

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

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

Chicago is a big town for magicians and card hustlers. So when I was very young, a fellow sat me down and taught me the Three-Card Monte. And that kind of put me in a - pointed me towards easy money.

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

People go hard with the scams. Make sure you know who you're working with and what the contract says.

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.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

Give me an honest con man any day.

Fraud makes the world go round.

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!

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

You can't cheat an honest man.