Quotes from Larry King


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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.


I fantasized being a broadcaster.


I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.


I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.


I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?


Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.


When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.


With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.


Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.


I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.


I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.


My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.


Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.


If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.


I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.


I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.


I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun.


People would pay money to work at CNN.


Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.


Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.