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I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.