Unusual Talent Quotes

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I used to run into lampposts. That was my party trick.

We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.

One of those chubby kids that would do something athletic and everybody would look at me and say, 'What the heck? Did that kid just do that?' That's the kind of chubby kid I was.

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

I can do contortionist things; it's really weird. But I can freak people out, which is great!

I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.

I've been blessed with a lot of things in life, but God did not give me rhythm. Still, I love to dance - which past girlfriends always found hilarious.

Everything about me is so odd: I look weird. I have a nasal voice. I'm arrogant. my singing raises the dead from the grave. I am inspired by Altaf Raja, as one report mentioned, and so much more. I have stopped fighting all these rumours and remarks.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.