Top 99 Larry King Sayings
#1. Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'
Johnny Weir
#2. I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.
Joy Behar
#3. I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
Dave Barry
#4. Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ.
Anthony Jeselnik
#5. I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.
Joe Morgan
#6. Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
James Wolcott
#7. Larry King has been married more times than Henry the Eighth. We used to have that rhyme to keep track of them. 'Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.' With Larry I think it goes, 'Divorced, beheaded, divorced, escaped. Zombie, lesbian, disappeared, inflatable.
Craig Ferguson
#8. Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.
Jay Leno
#9. Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.
Tom Shales
#10. Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.
James Wolcott
#11. My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.
Ronan Farrow
#12. Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.
Jerry Lawler
#13. I liked that Larry King didn't know who Minerva was.
Maria Shriver
#14. A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
James Wolcott
#15. Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
Maureen O'Hara
#16. People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.
Mattie Stepanek
#17. You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)
Jesse Ventura
#18. Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.
James Stockdale
#19. There's never been a blueprint, I just keep exploring doors as they open. But whenever people would ask me what's my favorite thing to do, it was sitting in for Larry King.
Drew Pinsky
#20. Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.
Larry King
#21. Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.
Larry L. King
#22. Sometimes [ ... ] real love is silent as well as blind.
Stephen King
#23. You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.
Larry King
#24. Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
Larry King
#25. Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.
Tom Shales
#26. I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
Larry King
#27. Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.
Larry King
#28. I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.
Larry King
#29. Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.
Larry Holmes
#30. The first rule of my speaking is: listen!
Larry King
#31. The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.
Larry King
#32. The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
#33. When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.
Larry Holmes
#34. People would pay money to work at CNN.
Larry King
#35. 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.
Larry King
#36. For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over all your scruples is an absolute necessity!
Stephen King
#37. I didn't learn anything while I was talking.
Larry King
#38. 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?
Larry King
#39. 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.
Larry King
#40. Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
Larry King
#41. Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.
Larry King
#42. I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.
Larry King
#43. 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.
Larry King
#44. If you do something, expect consequences.
Larry King
#45. I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
Larry King
#46. Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King
#47. An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
Larry King
#48. Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
Larry King
#49. I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.
Larry King
#50. Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?
Larry King
#51. I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
Larry King
#52. The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing,
is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you
didnt know was in you.
Larry L. King
#53. I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.
Larry King
#54. And one particular characteristic that Doerr liked: "They were nerdy white males, dropouts with no social life."6 Again, Larry and Sergey went off to Burger King to celebrate.
Janet Lowe
#55. I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
Larry King
#56. I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
Larry King
#57. Larry Geller's Leaves of Elvis' Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.
Uri Geller
#58. Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
Larry King
#59. 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.
Larry King
#60. You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
Larry King
#61. For a few precious moments ... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky ... where all things are again possible ... and the wind blows free.
Larry L. King
#62. Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.
Larry King
#63. It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
Stephen King
#64. I have never understood the Iowa caucus.
Larry King
#65. Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
Larry King
#66. If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.
Larry Holmes
#67. I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.
Penn Jillette
#68. I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
Larry King
#69. When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.
Larry King
#70. If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
#71. It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
Larry King
#72. You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.
Larry King
#73. Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
Larry L. King
#74. I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Larry King
#75. 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.
Larry King
#76. I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.
Larry King
#77. I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun.
Larry King
#78. Larry woke up with a hangover that was not too bad, a mouth that tasted as if a baby dragon had used it for a potty chair
Stephen King
#79. Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.
Alan King
#80. Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
Larry King
#81. You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.
Larry King
#82. 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.
Larry King
#83. One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.
Larry King
#84. If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
Larry King
#85. Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.
Larry Holmes
#86. I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King
#87. I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Larry King
#88. Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem.
Larry Holmes
#89. The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!
Larry King
#90. I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.
Larry Holmes
#91. There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.
Larry King
#92. I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.
Julia Child
#93. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman
#94. Nick: My second point is the same one Larry made about the Judge. The Adversary is not going to expect us to send a retarded person as a spy.
Stephen King
#95. I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.
Larry King
#96. i never learned anything while i was talking.
Larry King
#97. With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
Larry King
#99. We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
Larry Holmes
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