Shah Rukh Khan Quotes

The essence is that I leave something of me in every role — not 100 per cent.

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.

That if you want to be famous, you take your dad's name. And I said the only persons I don't want to be famous by taking my name are [Aryan, his son] and [Suhana, his daughter]. Let the rest of the world do that.

I am the same old actor. When people question me I really look back and think but I feel people love characters like Rahul or Raj because they are different. Every role is different and I am not reinventing myself as an actor.

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.

Success makes people - people not related to you or to your field - like to take a dig at you.

After all, what is a film? It is selling of a dream. We have to tell lies to people, we have to sell them dreams.

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

I believe my nation is truly secular, I truly believe that.

A person must buy my film only if he feels good about it, not otherwise.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

If money-making was my aim, I could have done two ad films or shows and earned the same amount of money -- probably more -- in just two or four days.

My films do well only because they are good, not because of me.

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

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.