"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."

"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."

"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."

"I am where I never thought I would be. I got much more than what I had expected. I am strong believer in God, hard work and honesty."

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

"I believe the show must go on."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If somebody is working very hard, or deserves a lot of money, pay him upfront, say he is going to be working for so much time, he deserves it – and then put the rest of the money where it should go. But unfortunately, that sort of transparency is rarely there."

"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 may say things with the right intention, but more often than not, people will misconstrue it."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"I believe my nation is truly secular, I truly believe that."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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 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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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 normally comment about my own films. But my judgment of films is excellent, it is better than yours."

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

"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."

"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 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."

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

"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'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?"

"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!"

"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."