Physical Difference Quotes

Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs.

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

All my family is average-sized, apart from me. I didn't really think about my size until I got older, a few years before high school. It had never really fazed me that much.

I was born with a different physical capacity to other people.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.

I've seen some players with very big feet ... and some with very small feet.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

I used to dread somebody saying, 'Whatsa matter with your eye?'

I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

I've always felt comfortable on the ball, and I don't know why people are so surprised when you can control it well. It's not a disability. It's just that I'm a bit taller than everyone else.

All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or listened to the same music.

We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

As long as I'm going fast and making plays, they're going to forget how many hands I have.

I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.

My body is just built different. Some people try to look at it as a weakness, but I look at it as a blessing.

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.