Shahrukh Khan Quotations

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

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.

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.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

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.

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?

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.

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.

There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.

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.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

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.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

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.

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.

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

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.

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.

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

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.

People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

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.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

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.

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

If it could have happened through a film that I was associated with, it would have made be doubly proud. It makes me proud anyway. I am not disappointed.

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.

My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

I trust two people, myself and the other is not you, its God

Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself

There is no religion of terrorism.

Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.

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.

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.

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.

I do believe that an actor, who is self aware, will never do a film that is not an extension of his personality.

Live, laugh, love, every day to it's fullest, for who knows, tomorrow, may not be.

The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe...

I'm not bisexual, I'm tri-sexual. I try everything

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.

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!

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.

There is only one religion in the world-hard work

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.

No one can have two viewpoints about terrorism. There is no religion of terrorism. I am often asked my viewpoint on this, maybe because i am very proud to be a Muslim

Yes it's going really well. We are planning on having a baby together.

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

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.

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

If you ask that question again ma'am, I will have to ask you your age

I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation

I would tell the world that Shahrukh is the better actor

I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"

Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby...

I learnt very early in life that whenever there is a choice between peace of mind and piece of ass, go for the former.

I would love to have MS Dhoni in KKR.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.

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.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

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 the 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 a bat...Batman...the prince of darkness.

There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino

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'.

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

It's OK to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.

When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me.

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.

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.

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

It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

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

Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile

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

I can fight with all actors, I can face them and win, but I cannot fight aliens.