I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying. " In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.