Barry Diller

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.

I didn't want to go to school.

I didn't want to go to college.

I didn't want to do much of anything.

I was hibernating for a good long time.

But I'd always had this interest in the entertainment, in the world of entertainment.

I grew up around it.

Most of my friend's parents were in the entertainment business in one form or the other.

And so I was just pulled by it.

It was a tractor beam that always drove me or intrigued me.

And when I finally thought, you know, I really am 19.

I want to go to school, but I got to do something.