Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.
I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
It's something that occurs to me many times in my movies. They can often be treated comically or dramatically and I usually opt to treat them comically. But it occurred to me that you could get a story and you could fool around with it both ways.