“For a psychiatrist, whether you lie or tell the truth is unimportant because lies are as interesting, as eloquent, and as revelatory as the so-called truth.”
Italo Calvino - Himself

“- Frank Abagnale Jr.: Brenda, I don't want to lie to you anymore. All right? I'm not a doctor. I never went to medical school. I'm not a lawyer, or a Harvard graduate, or a Lutheran. Brenda, I ran away from home a year and a half ago when I was 16.
- Brenda Strong: Frank? Frank? You're not a Lutheran?”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Frank Abagnale Jr.
Amy Adams - Brenda Strong

“- Rick Leland: You never have any clothes on.
- Alberta Marlow: If anyone heard you complaining about it, they would put you in a psychopathic ward.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Leland
Mary Astor - Alberta Marlow

- Mrs. Henry Vale: The very word "psychiatry", doesn't it fill you with shame, my daughter, a member of our family?
- Dr. Jaquith: There's nothing shameful or frightening about it. It's simple, what I do. People come to a fork in the road. They don't know which way to go. I put up a signpost: "Not that way. This way".

Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith

“That insanity is a legal concept. It's not a medical or psychiatric term, but despite the fact that insanity's a legal concept, it doesn't mean that someone's not sick.”
Leelee Sobieski - Lauren Douglas