Frank Abagnale Quotes

As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.

Maybe it's stupidity, but you just gotta jump into things. That's how I've gone through life.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

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.'

I overthink decisions when I should really trust my heart.

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.

It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I'll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I've said yes!

For me, there is always a certain level of recklessness that, I think, gives you a certain foundation, that makes you more interesting as a person.

I've always been a risk taker. Growing up, I had a lot of freedom and room to roam and do what I wanted, and I think that's a huge part of my game.

I've never lived with a 'be careful' philosophy.

That's always been my problem - the lack of fear in some situations.

I'm more the kind of man who never makes decisions. But impulsivity is not the opposite of courage; I think it's possible to do both.