A Quote by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

That's something I've struggled with my entire life - people underestimating me. — © Jurnee Smollett-Bell
That's something I've struggled with my entire life - people underestimating me.
I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.
I am used to people underestimating me.
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.
There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.
When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
It's good that people are underestimating me. I'm the guy from Down Under, and I'm going to show them what's up.
Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.
I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.
I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.
Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.
This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.
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