Shahrukh Khan
Bollywood actor.
Actually another thing that keeps me going in the industry is trying to do a film that impresses [his kids].
Hero is a misnomer. India is the only place left in the world where we call our stars heroes and heroines.
I believe the show must go on.
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 am not confident unless I am playing someone else.
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.
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 may say things with the right intention, but more often than not, people will misconstrue it.
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.
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.
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 don’t sit down with the scripts. As long as I like the people I’m working with that’s enough for me.
I think if you take sexuality very seriously it becomes very oily.
A person must buy my film only if he feels good about it, not otherwise.
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.
Just because I am cheerful and jovial and look good, doesn’t mean that I can’t act.
As long as the women I’m romancing are happy with me doing it then I’ll carry on.
You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.
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)
I don't sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different.