- Born
- Nicknames
- The Fast Talking Guy
- Motormouth
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- John Moschitta Jr. was born on August 6, 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Transformers: The Movie (1986), Dick Tracy (1990) and Young Doctors in Love (1982).
- Known for his rapid speech delivery
- Is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest talker.
- Has appeared in several commercials, among the more famous of which are for FedEx and Micro Machines. A handful of the Micro Machine commercials have featured his real-life son, John III.
- Was once hired as a speaker for a corportate presentation when a client discovered that they didn't have enough time to give a full presentation. He managed to give the full presentation in 1/4th the needed time.
- He has a twin sister and four younger sisters as well.
- Has one elder sister, who cannot talk nearly as fast...but whom John credits with inspiring him to self-train accordingly, since "it always drove her wild".
- [about Orson Welles] And, uh, uh, oddly enough he was playing Unicron. The, the planet that was eating the Universe. And he looked like he had been eating the Universe.
- [on going for the world record for fast-talking]: I decided I wasn't going to eat a car or swallow lead pipe. The only thing I could really do that didn't cost any money was fast talking.
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