Mario Balotelli Quotes

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

It's important to be unconventional.

I've always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

Where's your will to be weird?

My eccentricity became direction.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

I like being unconventional.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules.