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I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

My mother was my best friend and confidante.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

I was always the leading man's best friend's best friend.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.