Welcome to our collection of Catch Me If You Can Quotes! This classic movie tells the story of Frank Abagnale Jr., a teenage con artist and master of disguise who swindles millions of dollars from various banks and businesses. From his hilarious escapades to his heartfelt moments of growth, Catch Me If You Can is full of memorable quotes. We have gathered some of the most inspiring and meaningful lines from the movie to help you appreciate the story and its characters.
Memorable Catch Me If You Can Quotes
“An honest man has nothing to fear, so I’m trying my best not to be afraid.” — Frank Abagnale Jr.
⏺“For the last six months, he’s gone to Harvard and Berkeley. I’m betting he can get a passport.” — Carl Hanratty
⏺“I love my job!” — Carl Hanratty
⏺“If you were a father, you’d know. I would never give up my son. I would never give up my son.” — Frank Abagnale Sr.
⏺“People only know what you tell them.” — Frank Abagnale Jr.
⏺“Put your shirt on, Frank. You’re under arrest.” — Carl Hanratty
⏺“The Yankees win because they have Mickey Mantle. No one ever bets on the uniform.” — Carl Hanratty
⏺“To da moon!!” — Frank Abagnale Sr.
⏺“Where are you going tonight, Frank? Someplace exotic? Tahiti, Hawaii?” — Frank Abagnale Sr.
⏺“You’re gonna have to catch me first!” — Frank Abagnale Jr.
Catch Me If You Can quotes from Frank Abagnale Jr.
“The truth is that… I’m not a doctor, I’m not a lawyer, I’m not an airline pilot. I’m… I’m nothing, really. I’m-I’m-I’m just a kid who’s in love with your daughter.” — Frank Abagnale Jr.
⏺“Yeah, but there’s no crease in the paper. When your mom hands you a note to miss school, the first thing you do is, you fold it and you put it in your pocket. I mean, if it’s real, where’s the crease?” — Frank Abagnale Jr.
Catch Me If You Can quotes from Frank Abagnale Sr.
⏺“Frank made a fake I.D. and enlisted in the Marine Corps. He’s over in Vietnam right now. That kid is halfway around the world, crawling through the damn jungle, fighting the Communists so… please, don’t come to my home and call my boy a criminal, because that kid has more guts…” — Frank Abagnale Sr.
⏺“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit.
“He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.” — Frank Abagnale Sr.
⏺“Cause they have Mickey Mantle?”
⏺“Dad, out of all those men – you were the one who took her home, remember that.”
⏺“I don’t know. She said something about going to look for a job.”
⏺“No, it’s ’cause the other teams can’t stop staring at those damn pinstripes.”
⏺“She’s so stubborn, your mother. Don’t worry, I won’t let her go without a fight. I’ve been fighting for her since the day we met.”
⏺“What’s she gonna be, a shoe salesman at a centipede farm?”
⏺“Where’s your mother?”
⏺“You know why the Yankees always win, Frank?”
Catch Me If You Can quotes from Carl Hanratty
⏺“I never said he was a criminal, Mr. Abagnale. I said he was in trouble. If you’d like to give me a call and talk, here’s my number.” — Carl Hanratty
⏺“No, no. I’m not here to arrest you. I’m looking for your son. He’s in trouble. Do you know where he is?” — Carl Hanratty
⏺“You go back to Europe, you’re gonna die in Perpignan Prison. You try to run here in the States, we’ll send you back to Atlanta for 50 years.” — Carl Hanratty
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story Of A Real Fake Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale
⏺“A boy simply wasn’t worth a man’s wages. So I aged ten years overnight.”
⏺“A man’s alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.”
⏺“I did have a definite goal. I was going to be a success in some field. I was going to make it to the top of some mountain. And once there, no one or nothing was ever going to dislodge me from the peak.”
⏺“I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there’s a touch of class involved.”
⏺“I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.”
“I was a millionaire twice over and again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it…”
⏺“I was always aware that I was Frank Abagnale, Jr., that I was a check swindler and a faker, and if and when I was caught I wasn’t going to win any Oscars. I was going to jail.”
⏺“I was an imposter, one of the most wanted criminals on four continents, and at the moment I was doing my thing, putting a super hype on some nice people.”
⏺“I wasn’t a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. I was an imposter…”
⏺“I’ve been described by authorities and news reporters as one of this century’s cleverest bum-check passers, flimflam artists and crooks, a con man of Academy Award caliber. I was a swindler and and poseur of astonishing ability.”
⏺“It wasn’t altogether a relaxing life. I didn’t exactly keep my finger on the panic button, but I put a lot of mileage on my running shoes.”
⏺“It’s a scientific fact that the bumblebee can’t fly, either. But he does, and he makes a lot of honey on the side. And that’s all I intended to be. A bumblebee in Pan Am’s honey hive.”
⏺“Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.”
⏺“Some books are judged by their covers, it seems, and in my uniform I was an immediate best seller.”
⏺“Someone said there’s no such thing as an honest man. He was probably a con man.”
⏺“The mirror in my room in the Windsor Hotel in Paris reflected my favorite image of me- a darkly handsome young airline pilot, smooth-skinned, bull-shouldered, and immaculately groomed.”
⏺“The situation did have its effect on us boys, of course. Me in particular. I loved my dad. I was the closest to him, and he commenced to use me in his campaign to win back Mom.”
⏺“There is enchantment in a uniform, especially one that marks the wearer as a person of rare skills, courage or achievement.”
⏺“Trouble was, at the time I didn’t know what I was or who I was.”
⏺“You’d con your own father, Frank.”
Verdict
Catch Me If You Can Quotes are a great reminder of the importance of staying one step ahead of the game and never giving up, no matter how difficult the challenge. With its powerful messages, this movie can inspire us to face whatever comes our way and strive to be the best version of ourselves.