“Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don’t remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?”
“Dad’s Pathan, Mom’s Rajput, 2nd mom’s Christian, in school they asked me what religion: dad said Human”
“It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there’s no solid reason for me to be proud! I don’t think I have done anything extraordinary to change people’s lives.”
“There are actors who can pull of a writer’s lines; I am not competent enough to do that.”
“I’m not possessive; I’m caring… Once you realize a person doesn’t want that much care, you automatically back off.”
“I am a virgin and I am saving myself for my future wife.”
“Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don’t have to show that I am working very hard.”
“Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children. I wanted to marry to make babies, but now I have them, so marriage isn’t that important, is it?”
“Sometimes I feel I hope I’m not taking advantage of my stardom.”
“I don’t have to impress a woman. If you try to impress a woman you are being the man you are not. She is bound to turn around and whack you in the face. Be yourself. Don’t do things that you will not be able to do in your relationship after a point of time.”
“The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.”
“If I stuck to my first girlfriend, I’d be a grandfather by now… I love kids… but with the kid come the mother. I don’t want the mother.”
“I have lots of time. Why would anyone want to have time for themselves? You are 24 hours with yourself.”
“The only person I have hurt is myself.”
“I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting – because I don’t act. On screen I am like I am in real life.”
“For me acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don’t act at all. I think that to feel the character’s pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.”
“If it is something that I want to do, then I don’t think the audience will hate it.”
“The media also wrote a lot of incorrect facts about me. This did not help me either. The media kept hammering me, but I maintained my silence.”
“Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.”
“If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don’t wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.”