I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.
Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.
I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.