Shahrukh Khan

"Rani Mukerji"

"Don't be negative. It shows on your face."

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

"I am not confident unless I am playing someone else."

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

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

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

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

"You never win the silver. You only lose the gold."

"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."

"On some rare occasions I do go to cinema theatres abroad. But if you really ask me I would rather watch a film on DVD all alone in the dark environs of my car or my home."

"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)"

"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."

"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?)"

"I never yell at kids. I just hug them hard and threaten them not to do something again. I would never be aggressive with a woman or a little child. I would rather die before I raise hand on a little kid or a lady."

"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."

"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."

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

"I’m completely ordinary."

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

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

"Actually another thing that keeps me going in the industry is trying to do a film that impresses [his kids]."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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!"

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

"I've been there, done it all. I'm very clear about my priorities as an entertainer. I want the audience to feel good when they watch me. That's what I'm paid for. Why should I sell anything else?"

"I don't think I've achieved superstardom. One has to achieve much more. My next level is the next shot I do. When I see some of my shots, I wonder why I did them so badly. Audiences and critics don't know about these shots. But I know. These moments remain very personal."

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

"I only hope that people enjoy viewing the film I’ve enjoyed making. I don’t know whether the film we’ve made is commercial or not, whether it’s good or not, but I do know that we’ve made it honestly and that we've enjoyed making it. I just hope it has turned out to be the film we had set out to make."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

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

"Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep."

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

"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."

"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.’"

"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."