Shahrukh Khan Quotes

“I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight.”

“I believe it is my job to tell people about what the good points of either company are. I'm not lying in either case.”

“Success makes people - people not related to you or to your field - like to take a dig at you.”

“I am popular for all that I’ve done on the screen. That is why I’m never ashamed of what I’ve done in front of the camera, nor am I extra-proud of what I’ve done.”

“Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world.”

“It makes it easier to get happiness. I do believe in a material world to a certain extent. I think material happiness is quite an important step before you look for spiritual happiness. There are people who think the other way round. They might also be right. But in the kind of education and the world where I have grown up, and we all are growing up, a certain level of consumerism become a reality. (as an answer to the question: Do you think that money can buy happiness?)”

“Successful people do things, and get over with it, and leave others to live their life off it. I DO them. And then I leave it to others to live their life off it.”

“Recently somebody asked me if I’m still in touch with my feminine side. They ask me why did I do the Lux ad and things like that. I think there is a feminine side to me, as people like to assume.”

“I am the same old actor. When people question me I really look back and think but I feel people love characters like Rahul or Raj because they are different. Every role is different and I am not reinventing myself as an actor.”

“After all, what is a film? It is selling of a dream. We have to tell lies to people, we have to sell them dreams.”

“I don’t feel ill about anyone. I don’t even feel nice about anyone. I just don’t think about them. I am selfish that way. I think about myself, my films and my friends.”

“Creativity has this problem, sometimes it'll be liked, sometimes it won't. It's unfortunate that perhaps we expected something more popular from this music, and it isn't that. See, this is very subjective. You will find enough people who like that also, I think.”

“See, these things like enmity and fighting… I don’t think I am at that age anymore.”

“I think I invoke radical passions in people - and that is why I am such a big star!”

“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father’s name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star’s children.”

“If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.”

“I like talking when people ask me sensible questions. Ask me senseless questions also, but in a context, and I can have fun, I can make you laugh at my answers.”

“That if you want to be famous, you take your dad's name. And I said the only persons I don't want to be famous by taking my name are [Aryan, his son] and [Suhana, his daughter]. Let the rest of the world do that.”

“I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.”

“It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.”

“My films do well only because they are good, not because of me.”

“Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.”

“The audience's preferences for films are in black and white. They either like a film or they don't.”

“I've become a free-for-all brand. I hope they come out with a rule that they can't use a person's name without paying him for it!”

“If I'm ever asked to do something in the national interest, do a project of national relevance, it's not as if I will not charge for it, but I will ensure that what I give back is not just worth that money, but is a little more than that.”

“I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don’t assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don’t get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.”

“Hero is a misnomer. India is the only place left in the world where we call our stars heroes and heroines.”

“I don't sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different.”

“As long as the women I’m romancing are happy with me doing it then I’ll carry on.”

“It has varied. I don’t know if it’s good or bad but a dear friend of mine Aziz (Mirza) asked me not to do Don. I was also told to cut my hair and to change my name because someone said that there couldn’t be a movie star by the name of Shah Rukh Khan. (when asked the worst piece of professional advice that someone has given him)”

“I don’t normally comment about my own films. But my judgment of films is excellent, it is better than yours.”

“My biggest enemy, incidentally, is my ‘next time.’ I’m neither being immodest when I say that my next will be even better nor am I being humble when I say that this is less than what my next film will be.”

“I feel very strongly about souls who are misguiding people in the name of religion.”

“I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.”

“A person must buy my film only if he feels good about it, not otherwise.”

“I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.”

“I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.”

“If money-making was my aim, I could have done two ad films or shows and earned the same amount of money -- probably more -- in just two or four days.”

“If I leave Pepsi, and later Coke tells me to do something for them, I'd do it. I have no issues, whether Coke and Pepsi have different ideologies or not. See, I'm called for a job, I'd do it.”

“[On its Oscar entry]It was very shocking for me because a movie called Black had released and I was working with Rani for a movie called Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. It was New York, very cold, raining, and Rani came running, saying, "Shah, Shah, we got nominated, we got nominated!" And I thought she was talking about Black-and Rani's very close to me, one of my best, bestest friends- and she came and hugged me and I said congratulations because one thought she was talking about Black. Because Paheli hadn't fared very well commercially, though it was very close to my heart. Suddenly she said, "No, no, no, Paheli has won!" And everyone -Karan [Johar] was there- said, "No, no don't joke, don't hurt him like this." And we were really shocked.”

“Often I don't say hello to people for fear that they may not remember me.”

“[When speaking to Rani in a stadium”

“I believe the show must go on.”

“I believe that my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world.”

“It takes a lot of intellect to be able to convince people to believe in fantasy – but people don't seem to be able to recognize that.”

“Just because I am cheerful and jovial and look good, doesn’t mean that I can’t act.”

“I am like a Rolls Royce which can run without an engine, just on reputation.”

“I take care not to remind my audience that I am Shah Rukh Khan. The better thing to do is to hold a mirror for them and to tell them, ‘This is you.”

“Sometimes I don't want to dignify things with answers. And it takes a huge amount of self-restraint, patience, control, and love for your own family, to keep quiet. And dignity, and perhaps the status that I have in the eyes of the people.”

“Making a movie has to be artistic. You have to look back and say, ‘I did this because I had fun.”

“The essence is that I leave something of me in every role — not 100 per cent.”

“We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.”

“Don't be negative. It shows on your face.”

“I don’t sit down with the scripts. As long as I like the people I’m working with that’s enough for me.”

“Actually another thing that keeps me going in the industry is trying to do a film that impresses”

“Money is a good thing to run after. It is very important to be financially stable but you have to keep your wrongs and rights in mind. Don't shy away from earning but without selling your soul.”

“I bring excitement on the sets. I’m an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I’m not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better.”

“I don't think movie stars are nationally relevant – it's as simple as that.”

“I believe my nation is truly secular, I truly believe that.”

“There is no alternative to work. I find nothing nicer than working. MK tells me that I am a workaholic. If I don’t work I get a headache and I feel depressed. I like to work round the clock all the time.”

“I think if you take sexuality very seriously it becomes very oily.”

“You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.”

“When I get up in the morning and have to go to work and jump off things that may be quite dangerous, the payback isn’t the bigger car, but it’s that someone somewhere will smile a lot.”

“My strength to work in such situations comes from my family and people who love to watch me.”

“Films and filmmakers and actors are part of a strange art form, which is only measured by the yardstick of commerce. So it's a dichotomy; it'll always be so.”

“My family likes me as a person and not because I am an actor. I never mix the two. I don't know how much I earn or how many awards I have received.”