Larry King Quotes

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

When you get to a certain age, you have to make a decision for yourself: if you want to get old in the industry, and you want to play maybe a few parts that come along now and then - or what else in life interests you?

I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

Most of us, whether we like it or not, we grow up and start having a different view of what we've done and who we are and where we're going.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.