Shah Rukh Khan, also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works in Hindi films.Explore famous Shah Rukh khan Quotes.
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1) ”I cannot repay my fans for what they have done for me, they have given me so much love and that love has taken me to the number 1 position where I am today, the only thing I can do for my fans is to never stop working.”
2) ”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.”
3) ”More than an actor, I am a performer… I’m a great believer – honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so – that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there’s the postal service.”
4) ”I don’t really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I’ve signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.”
5) ”There’s a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.”
6) ”As for my destination, I don’t think I ever knew one. I walk, I run in the direction of my dreams. Things change along the way, people change, I change, the world changes, even my dreams change. I don’t have a place to arrive, I just keep doing what I know how to do, the best that I can do it. I’ll probably end up a deluded geriatric in a wheelchair wearing a cape and tights, imagining my own flight out of this world, but of course with a young girl in my arms. ”
7) ”After I began working, I realized there’s no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success. On the face of it, I’m the biggest capitalist of all. I have all the riches. I’m the living proof of what stardom should be in material terms. But I’ve never sold my soul. I’ve not done anything which I didn’t want to do. I’ve not done films for money. I’m not saying this with arrogance but I’ve never asked for a film.”
8) ”The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I’m able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone’s work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what’s the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn’t have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first. ”
9) ”It is a dichotomous time where the younger generation is perceived as free. But smoking pot is not being free. Taking drugs is not being free. I feel that being courteous and telling your dad, ‘I’m going to have a drink’ with your dad saying ‘give me one too’ is cool. That’s being freer, happier and nicer. But having issues and saying that ‘I am my own person, I am moving out Mom!’ is not. Yes, if your mom tells you to move out then that’s being free.”
10) ”The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness. ”
11) ”Well, Kajol’s a lovely lady! She’s a pleasure to work with and I really enjoy her company! She has the ability to make someone feel so important…she herself is really cheerful and she makes others around her feel cheerful too. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen her cry…except in front of the camera of course! I believe she has the potential to go so far.She is such an insipiration to everyone around her…..including me!”
12) ”As a person, I am still very middle class. People don’t realise these things. Most of the black suits that I wear are the same. All the designer clothes I have are actually from my films. I don’t dream of Rolls Royce and things like that… People are kind enough to me to give me the nicest things in life, but it doesn’t mean that I’m used to them.”
13) ”I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked”
14) ”My parents’ loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they’re my parents. In comparison to them, I behave childishly. My 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son behave like my mother and father. They’re not my weakness. I love them a lot and give them a lot. I’ll give them so much that by the time they are adults they wouldn’t want anything.”
15) ”Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success – I don’t have a standard.”
16) ”Don’t let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won’t even have done the ‘Funky Chicken’.”
17) ”I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
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18) ”As an actor you’re only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don’t like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money… an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You’ll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.”
19) ”So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.”
20) ”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.”
21) ”No – Kajol can never go anywhere. Kajol is absolutely hearts and minds and memories and silloys for ever and ever. I think if I was to, I wouldn’t be exaggerating I if say in our times of film-making she’s a beautiful living legend.”
22) ”I’ve told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I’m still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.”
23) ”Awards that ignore me are losers.”
24) ”I talk to Allah, I pray to him.”
25) ”One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, ‘I don’t know’. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.”
26) ”There is no religion of terrorism.”
27) ”I’m too shy to do kissing scenes.”
28) ”Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.”
29) ”My favorite dish is tandoori chicken.”
30) ”I would love to have MS Dhoni in KKR.”
31) ”Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.”
32) ”I’m try-sexual. I try anything that’s sexual.”
33) ”Don’t be negative. It shows on your face.”
34) ”There is only one religion in the world-hard work.”
35) ”You never win the silver, you only lose the gold.”
36) ”Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.”
37) ”I’m not bisexual, I’m tri-sexual. I try everything.”
38) ”Don’t become a philosopher before you become rich.”
39) ”I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.”
40) ”I think love can happen at any age… it has no age.”
41) ”It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.”
42) ”I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.”
43) ”Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough.”
44) ”You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me.”
45) ”Life begins when we decide it’s going to begin for us.”
46) ”Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”
47) ”I would tell the world that Shahrukh is the better actor.”
48) ”The collar-bone is my favorite part of the human body.”
49) ”I don’t teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.”
50) ”More than an actor, I am a performer. I’m a great believer.”
51) ”It is not special to be special, it’s special to be ordinary.”
52) ”I trust two people, myself and the other is not you, its God.”
53) ”I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.”
54) ”As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.”
55) ”It’s easy to be ignorant but it’s very intricate to be aware.”
56) ”I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I’m like a kid.”
57) ”There’s a personal me, there’s an actor me and there’s a star me.”
58) ”As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.”
59) ”Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.”
60) ”Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.”
61) ”When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?”
62) ”If you ask that question again ma’am, I will have to ask you your age.”
63) ”Live now, live today – don’t be bound by rules, live your own dream.”
64) ”If you like me, raise your hand. If you don’t, raise your standards.”
65) ”I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.”
66) ”Yes it’s going really well. We are planning on having a baby together.”
67) ”I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 … My Mother Gave Me Before She Died.”
68) ”I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.”
69) ”When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me.”
70) ”Whenever I fail as a father or husband… a toy and a diamond always works.”
71) ”I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation.”
72) ”There is no right time and right place for love… it can happen any time.”
73) ”Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world.”
74) ”I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.”
75) ”I can fight with all actors, I can face them and win, but I cannot fight aliens.”
76) ”Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.”
77) ”I am running in a race and people are on the other track, I’m running with myself.”
78) ”I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.”
79) ”It’s okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.”
80) ”The dreams I chased took me on a journey,a journey more rewarding than the goals.”
81) ”For someone who doesn’t even like love stories, I’ve played an awful lot of lovers.”
82) ”Live, laugh, love, every day to it’s fullest, for who knows, tomorrow, may not be.”
83) ”I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.”
84) ”It’s not that I wear fantastic clothes, it’s just that clothes look fantastic on me.”
85) ”It is so strange – if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.”
86) ”I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.”
87) ”Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.”
88) ”I work hard, like I’m sure everyone else does, and I’m very honest with the work I do.”
89) ”If you want to become something, achieve something in life, then always listen to your heart.”
90) ”I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.”
91) ”I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.”
92) ”Whenever you’re feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile.”
93) ”My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it’s as ordinary as anyone else’s.”
94) ”Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.
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95) ”Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won’t matter and people who matter won’t mind it.”
96) ”Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It’s their little happiness.”
97) ”Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby.”
98) ”Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love.”
99) ”I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.”
100) ”Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.”
101) ”thank God for happiness and sadness. If you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is.”
102) ”I’ve won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I’m hungry for awards.”
103) ”When people call me God, I say, no, I’m still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.”
104) ”People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.”
105) ”If I talk to a girl, it’s assumed that I’m having a scene with her. If I don’t, then it’s assumed that I’m gay.”
106) ”My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it’s a Lux ad.”
107) ”Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.”
108) ”I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn’t stress the actors.”
109) ”Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don’t want big cars, I don’t want big hotel rooms.”
110) ”I learnt very early in life that whenever there is a choice between peace of mind and piece of ass, go for the former.”
111) ”Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.”
112) ”I don’t sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different.”
113) ”There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino.”
114) ”If you don’t like something don’t do it, and if you’re doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.”
115) ”Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others’ discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it’s funny.”
116) ”I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn’t. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.”
117) ”Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don’t be bound by rules, don’t hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else’s dream.”
118) ”Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn’t understand.”
119) ”Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn’t I once criticized for speaking too fast? Now they’re doing it my way.”
120) ”Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it. ”
121) ”I don’t like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I’m told to. But I’m not trapped by it.”
122) ”Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.”
123) ”Indian civilization does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I’m very proud to be an Indian.”
124) ”The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..is the struggle of life.”
125) ”I’d like to believe there’s a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can’t be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.”
126) ”I know it’s very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.”
127) ”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.”
128) ”I don’t drink, fight & womanise. I am not a wife beater. I don’t do nude covers. I don’t have a 12-inch long you know what … I am quite boring.”
129) ”Some people say,’Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don’t you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?’ But that’s not me.”
130) ”I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I’ll miss all that when it’s taken away.”