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I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.