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.Collection: Change
There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.Collection: Time
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Car
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.Collection: Morning
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Religion
I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.Collection: Work
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.Collection: Failure
When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.Collection: Chance
I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.Collection: Age
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.Collection: Funny
As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.Collection: Amazing
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?Collection: Family
I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.Collection: Smile
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.Collection: Happiness
I talk to Allah, I pray to him.
Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.
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.
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.
The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.
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.
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.
Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.
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.
Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.
It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.
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.
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.
Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.
People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
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.
In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.
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.
Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.
The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.
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.
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.
In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.
I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.
I don't kiss on screen. Period.
I'm an actor, I'm not a politician.
I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.
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.
For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.
I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
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.