Best 115 quotes of Shahrukh Khan on MyQuotes

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

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

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

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

It is a dichotomous time where the younger generation is perceived as free. But smoking pot is not being free. Taking drugs is not being free. I feel that being courteous and telling your dad, 'I'm going to have a drink' with your dad saying 'give me one too' is cool. That's being freer, happier and nicer. But having issues and saying that 'I am my own person, I am moving out Mom!' is not. Yes, if your mom tells you to move out then that's being free.

It is not special to be special, it's special to be ordinary

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

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

It's not that I wear fantastic clothes, it's just that clothes look fantastic on me.

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

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.

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

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

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

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

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.

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.

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

Live now, live today - don't be bound by rules, live your own dream.

Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.

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.

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

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

My favorite dish is tandoori chicken.

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

My parents' loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they're my parents. In comparison to them, I behave childishly. My 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son behave like my mother and father. They're not my weakness. I love them a lot and give them a lot. I'll give them so much that by the time they are adults they wouldn't want anything.

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.

One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

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

Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.

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 till 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 Batman – the prince of darkness.

The dreams I chased took me on a journey,a journey more rewarding than the goals

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.

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.

The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.

There is only one religion in the world-hard work

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.

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.

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love

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.

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!