Les Claypool Quotes

My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

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.

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.

Any time that we read a script and the 'Leverage' team has to infiltrate a place, assume identities, or become con artists ourselves to take down the really bad con artists, it's always fun to do that.

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.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

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

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

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

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

I'm a blagger by trade.

I had a gentleman steal or 'misplace' - I guess I should say 'allegedly' - a lot of money from me. It didn't make any sense when it was happening, because I just didn't understand why I didn't have any money. I was a perfect mark because I had all of this shame and insecurity about money.

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.

Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.