Larry King Quotes

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?

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

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.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.

Question Time' had been on my fantasy bucket list for some time. Of all the jobs in broadcasting that's the job I knew I wanted to do.

I'm where I'm supposed to be. In that purple chair, by myself, yip yapping. I am. I didn't fall into it, you know. I wanted to be a newscaster or a radio broadcaster since I was six years old. When I went to college, I majored in communications. When I touched a microphone, I fell in love.

Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.