Confidence Game Quotes

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely wonderful human beings who are acting the way wonderful human beings act and getting what we deserve.

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

Give me an honest con man any day.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Captaincy is a confidence game. When the team is winning and your decisions go well that breeds confidence.

It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.

When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

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.

Did I run real swindles? Oh, yeah. I mean, I started as a - on the street. I did not begin as a performer. I began running the shell game.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.