Fraud quotes

“I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.”
Errol Flynn

“What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that?”
Steve Carrell - Mark Baum

“- Sherlock Holmes: Ehtar! You're nothing but a damn fraud!
- Professor Rathe: And you, Holmes, are letting your emotions get the better of you again!”
Nicholas Rowe - Sherlock Holmes
Anthony Higgins - Professor Rathe

“A man must know the right occasion to indulge in tax evasion.”
Manning Redwood - Harry Weiss

“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball...”
Steve Carrell - Mark Baum

“They freak you at the drive-thru, okay? They freak you at the drive-thru! They know you're gonna be miles away before you find out you got freaked! They know you're not gonna turn around and go back, they don't care. So who gets freaked? Old Leo Getz! Okay, sure! I don't give a freak! I'm not eating this tuna, okay?”
Joe Pesci - Leo Getz

“Around the country the bookies pay off winners at track odds. It's dangerous when a long shot comes in. Unless you have somebody at the tracks to lower those odds.”
Martin Scorsese - Opening Voice-Over

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is: a) whatever the IRS says, b) a smartlawyer, c) ten years in prison, d) all of the above?”
Gene Hackman - Avery Tolar

“A word of advice. You want to pull a scam, don't make your wife a partner. And if you do, don't fuck around behind her back.”
Sam Neill - John Trent

“We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in. We can't help you because we never heard of you before.”
Geoffrey Rush - Ephraim

“- Pastor Arthur Mitchell: Actually, your honor, we have a lot of witnesses here that are willing to testify to a lot of things... like embezzlement.
- Tianna: Misappropriation of funds.
- Sister Doris: Falsifying documents.
- Rickey: Not to mention, wearing an easter suit with a Halloween shirt and tie set!”
Chi McBride - Pastor Arthur Mitchell
Malinda Williams - Tianna
Loretta Devine - Sister Doris
Katt Williams - Rickey

“- Mirror Man: That ain't donut jelly, so don't eat it.
[he applies the false fingerprint]
- Mirror Man: Your new fingerprints. Elvis is back.
- Donny Astricky: Damn...
- Mirror Man: Boy got skills, right?
- Donny Astricky: Yeah, you do. You're like a little ghetto Smurf.”

T.J. Cross - Mirror Man
Chi McBride - Donny Astricky

“- Dr. Bill Perlman: You think I'm a fraud.
- Max Klein: It's been 3 months since the crash, and I haven't thought of you at all.”
John Turturro - Dr. Bill Perlman
Jeff Bridges - Max Klein

“- The Mouse Queen: You insidious fiend.
- Professor Ratigan: What?
- The Mouse Queen: You're not my royal consort!
- Professor Ratigan: Such a sense of humor.
- The Mouse Queen: You're a cheap fraud and impostor!”

Eve Brenner - The Mouse Queen
Vincent Price - Professor Ratigan

“- Tommy: I sold some stuff.
- Denny: What did you sell?
- Tommy: A rented car.”
Tony Darrow - Tommy
Michael Rapaport - Denny

“He defrauded the American government of $56 million while we were at war, when we could least afford it. While brave men were dying on the beaches of Normandy, Mr. Hughes was picking the pocket of the American taxpayer.”

Alan Alda - Senator Ralph Owen Brewster

“- Terry Leather: This is The Major. Major Guy Singer. Final member of our team.
- Bambas: I don't know this man. Who are you?
- Guy Singer: None of your business.
- Terry Leather: No secrets around here. Major's a con artist, usually elderly widows.
- Guy Singer: There's no need to bring that up.”
Jason Statham - Terry Leather
Alki David - Bambas
James Faulkner - Guy Singer

“You see, there are two kinds of people in this world: the workers and the hustlers. The hustlers never work and the workers never hustle...”
Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin

“- Warren Schmidt: Randall, what happened about that investment opportunity? You never called me back.
- Duncan Hertzel: You mean that pyramid scheme?
- Larry Hertzel: Let's not talk about that now.
- Duncan Hertzel: All I know is I lost $800.”
Jack Nicholson - Warren Schmidt
Mark Venhuizen - Duncan Hertzel
Howard Hesseman - Larry Hertzel

“You're more authentic than all the people who worship you, and that's the problem you're lookin' at... the real fraud. I told myself this was all about the work. But if that were the truth, it wouldn't matter to me that you got all the attention, and it does; it does. I'm sorry, Simone.”
Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“- Jason Bourne: I'll give you ten thousand dollars for driving me to Paris.
- Marie: What, do you think I am, a fool?
- Jason Bourne: You'd be a fool not to take it.
- Marie: What is this, a joke? Some kind of scam?
- Jason Bourne: No, it's no scam.”
Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
Franka Potente - Marie

“- Mac: You are the most beautiful crook I've ever seen.
- Gin: Why, thank you kind sir.”
Sir Sean Connery - Mac
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Gin

“- Ray: You're still burning stuff down for insurance?
- Benny: I burn everything. That's how I sent two kids through college.”
Woody Allen - Ray
Jon Lovitz - Benny

“- Roy Waller: I'm not teaching you anything...
- Angela: Why not?
- Roy Waller: Because you're far too bright and innocent and beautiful and I'm not going to screw that up like everything else!”

Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller
Alison Lohman - Angela

“- Angela: Why won't you? Because crime doesn't pay?
- Roy Waller: No, it does. It does! Just not very well.”

Alison Lohman - Angela
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller