Shah Rukh Khan Quotes

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.

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.

I don’t normally comment about my own films. But my judgment of films is excellent, it is better than yours.

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

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 biggest enemy, incidentally, is my ‘next time.’ I’m neither being immodest when I say that my next will be even better nor am I being humble when I say that this is less than what my next film will be.

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.

I feel very strongly about souls who are misguiding people in the name of religion.

I don't think I've achieved superstardom. One has to achieve much more. My next level is the next shot I do. When I see some of my shots, I wonder why I did them so badly. Audiences and critics don't know about these shots. But I know. These moments remain very personal.

I've been there, done it all. I'm very clear about my priorities as an entertainer. I want the audience to feel good when they watch me. That's what I'm paid for. Why should I sell anything else?

The audience's preferences for films are in black and white. They either like a film or they don't.

I've become a free-for-all brand. I hope they come out with a rule that they can't use a person's name without paying him for it!

I think I invoke radical passions in people - and that is why I am such a big star!

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

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.