Barry Diller
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
My parents were perfectly nice.
They just were clueless about children.
They'd never been parented.
Their parents had never been parented.
And so they had no vocabulary for it.
And so she wasn't really there to protect me.
I think it's in biology.
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.
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.