I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.
I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.