Shahrukh Khan
Bollywood actor.
My strength to work in such situations comes from my family and people who love to watch me.
[On the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai role]And Rani was so outstandingly beautiful. I saw her on television in a trailer of Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat. And I thought she had the most stunning face I'd seen. And I said [to Karan] why don't you ask Rani to do it?
I believe that my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world.
Often I don't say hello to people for fear that they may not remember me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.
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.
I don’t normally comment about my own films. But my judgment of films is excellent, it is better than yours.
Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.
See, these things like enmity and fighting... I don’t think I am at that age anymore.
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.
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.
Making a movie has to be artistic. You have to look back and say, ‘I did this because I had fun.’
My films do well only because they are good, not because of me.
Don't be negative. It shows on your face.
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 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.