Paul Greengrass

Deep down, all directors feel like frauds - because it's built into the nature of the job. You're the jack of all trades and the master of none. The cameraman knows the camera, the sound man knows the sound equipment - and you? You can't do anything: You can't do the acting, you can't dress the set, you don't record the sound or shoot the images.

English Director

Damon Lindelof

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

American Writer

Al Franken

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.

American Politician

Salman Rushdie

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Indian Novelist

Stephen Colbert

Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.

American Comedian

Ajit Pai

Unfortunately, Lifeline, known in some circles as the 'Obamaphone' program, is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse.

American Public Servant

Adam Cohen

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.

American Journalist

Sheldon Whitehouse

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

Scott Garrett

There will always be waste, fraud, and abuse. That's just life.

Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

French Director

Fraud involves illegal actions aimed at getting money or property.

Criminal Actions

Fraud is planned; it's not an accidental or honest mistake.

Preplanned Deceit

Fraudulent acts betray the victim's trust and can be emotionally damaging.

Trust Violation

In legal contexts, 'fraud' indicates a specific crime with established definitions.

Specific Legal Term

Legal fraud has serious penalties, including fines and jail time.

Potential Consequences

Legal fraud requires proving intent to deceive, not just a falsehood.

Intention Matters

The term 'fraud' also applies to concepts that are not genuine.

Beyond Physical Objects

Being called a fraud can ruin a person's or entity's reputation.

Reputation Damage

Historical or cultural items claimed as frauds attract significant public interest.

Cultural Impact

 So I said, fake it till you make it. It's not me. I don't want to get there and then still feel like a fraud. I don't want to feel like an impostor. I don't want to get there only to feel like I'm not supposed to be here. And that really resonated with me, because I want to tell you a little story about being an impostor

Your body language may...

 useless right and that backbone mattered to me and whether or not you know the numbers of sharks or the numbers of fish that we said we were protecting if they weren't being protected then then I felt like a fraud and it doesn't sound glamorous but to me it's really exciting and fun it feels like exploration in a

There Are Better Ways to...

 identified and showed it other the other students as a matter of fact we decide to start a little impostor support group we started meeting and talking about big intellectual frauds and how we're fooling all of our professors and everything went great for about three weeks and that's about the time I

Thinking your way out of...

 And two, I realized it doesn't go away with any form of success. I had assumed that successful people didn't feel like frauds, and I now know that the opposite is more likely to be true. And this isn't just a feeling that I have at work. It happens in my personal life, too. In the early days,

How you can use impostor...

 to fraud, malware or plain old identity theft, which is a serious issue. But there are other hackers, hackers who just like to break things, and it is precisely those hackers that can find the weaker elements in our world and make us fix it. This is what happened last year

Hackers: the internet's...

 a common type of fraud where members make money by recruiting more people to buy in. Typically, the founder solicits an initial group of people to buy in and promote the scheme. They are then encouraged to recruit others and promised part of the money those people invest,

How to spot a pyramid...

 In most of the rest of the developed world, sick people don't have to worry about money. It's also true that price transparency will not solve every problem. There will still be expensive treatments, huge friction from our insurance system. There will still be fraud

What if all US health...

 far as food fraud it's just gonna get better better know the year yeah the bushes are just hanging with with green fruit right now he just needs to rate these this extra food is just the means to an end the touching just helps her accustomed to having hands on her

Feeding a Cute Black...

 The truth is that many people are susceptible not only to the temptation to commit fraud but to convincing themselves that they've done nothing wrong. So why does fraud happen? While individual motivations may differ from case to case, the fraud triangle,

How people rationalize...

 I know for sure we've got to do a better job of protecting voter rights, of prosecuting voter intimidation and also making sure we've got the technology that nobody needs to be afraid of voter fraud.