Barry Diller

My biology is very strong and my biology saved me.

I had to be independent and so I was.

I don't claim it as something to be prideful about.

I never had a sense of self because I didn't think I deserved a sense of self.

And so I never could claim that.

I never thought of that.

And I didn't have...

the kind of early buoyant confidence that I saw around me and that has always attracted me.

I'm always attracted to people who are natively confident.

I don't know how the hell the stars or their biology or their environment put that together for them.

And I see people walking down the street and I can see their confidence and I like think, oh my God, I wish I had ever had that.

But then...

If I'd had that, I'd probably end up being a shoe clerk at Macy's.

So I think that that lack of a sense of self, oddly, it enabled me in the earliest part of my career to please others to such an extent that it got me going.

And once I got going, I just kept going.

And I think that that, in a sense, lack of confidence or lack of sense of self propelled me to count.

My family didn't think much, but they, whatever they thought, somewhat unexpressed, but coming out from them as an environment, my family had resources.

And so I think they thought

Well, they'd be supporting me.

I never really have a job.