Peter MacNicol Quotes

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

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.

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.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

Identity theft has become an international business.

The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity 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.

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.

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

I believe we have been fleeced.

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

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

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.

There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.

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.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

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

The trust saga is full of “scandals, deception, dirty tricks and outright villainy,” says the presiding judge.

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

I saw firsthand the toll that fraud can take on the victims and their families.