Frank Abagnale Quotes

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.

The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.