Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
A humbug!!
Commenting on the presidential nomination of James K. Polk:
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'
Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?
I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.
... a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.
Referring to William Jennings Bryan:
Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.
Who are you and what have you done with my brother?
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.
Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.
Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.
The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.
I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'
The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.
I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.
She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move
My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.
A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of his movies.
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.