Frank Abagnale Quotes

I had to steal to survive.

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

Coming from a middle class background, I faced a lot of hardships during my initial years in Mumbai. I did not have much money and had to sing jingles and bhajans to survive. But those years taught me that a singer should be versatile.

We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in our life.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever.

Sometimes, you have to remind yourself that some people are just trying to find something to eat.

You had to be tough to survive in my neighborhood.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

When you have no money, you need invention.