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All hail the King! Filmfare looks back at Shah Rukh Khan's best quotes ever
by Rahul Gangwani | Fri, Aug 4, 2017
Shah Rukh Khan is an interviewer's delight. He's not only the king of showbiz but the sovereign of words and wit too. He talks a lot and he talks sense. You just have to throw a question at him and you get an interview in return. And what brilliant copy! His conversations give rare insights into his personality and his world. His initial interviews conveyed his dream to be the biggest star in the country, which he did eventually. The in-between ones have hints of confidence, charisma and charm. In the last few years, there's a wealth of wisdom subtly filtering in. While it's difficult to republish the interviews, we have drawn out his best quotes down the years that capture the marvel, the miracle in progress...
If there's a superb actor in the country, it's Aamir Khan. I've heard he wants to retire at 30 and turn director. I plan to quit at 30 too. August, 1992
"Basically, I'm a lazy man. I'm going to slog for another three or four years and then sit back and take it easy.
August, 1992
"Granted that I'm stylish but then I'm not a method actor. I'm Shah Rukh Khan first and then the character I play.
February, 1993
"So many people tell me, In films you look so good but...' They don't complete the sentence.
October, 1994
"Girls don't turn me on. I'm not gay but I don't get carried away by just a beautiful face.
October, 1994
"Nothing has changed. I'm still as cheerful, pompous and arrogant. I still believe I'm the best.
November, 1994
Whenever I'm asked to do a drunken scene, I think of Mr Amitabh Bachchan.
December, 1994
"Yes, I'm guilty of hamming. But we Indians are loud. Don't we get hysterical at funerals?
January, 1995
"I think of myself as a showpiece in a window. I have to attract the audience by hook or by crook, make them take me home.
January, 1995
"Once, I was insanely possessive about my wife. I'd get irritated even if she spoke to a six-year-old boy. Today I've eased up. I'm more secure. March, 1995
"I'd love to become an Agony Uncle. I'd advise Aamir Khan to freak out for a year.
- July, 1995
"Do I repeat myself? Yes. But history always repeats itself.
October, 1995
"I love walking in the rain with Gauri. But she refuses to get wet because we could catch a cold. So I drag her into the shower.
January, 1995
"I'm waiting for the day when they'll say, Do it the Shah Rukh way'. Right now they're doing it the Amitabh Bachchan way.
- July, 1995
"To say I'm a spontaneous actor is a worse clich than We're just good friends.'
August, 1996
"For Mani Ratnam I'd drop everything, including my pants.
August, 1996
"So many women claim that they've had torrid affairs with stars. But they call me beta.
December, 1996
"Once Juhi Chawla was on screen with Aamir Khan... Then she was on screen with me... what more could I ask for?
December, 1996
"Learning acting in India means dancing and horse-riding lessons...which make you dancers and stuntmen, not actors.
October, 1997
"I need money for my bungalow and my son's future... If that means plugging everything from colas to condoms, that's fine by me.
May, 1998
"I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
January, 1999
"If my tiff with Subhash Ghai was like a husband-wife tiff, maybe I'm the wife, since I was at the receiving end throughout Pardes.
July, 1999
The Chopras and I respect each other. I'm priceless to them in more ways than one. As they are to me.
December, 1999
"Yes, I interfere so that my close-ups are better. Yes, I'm self-centred, egoistic and selfish. Ha!
December, 1999
I feel as protective about Juhi and Kajol as I do about my sister.
January, 2000
I told Madhuri Dixit to promptly have a daughter as beautiful as her. Then I'd get my son Aryan to marry her.
January, 2000
"I don't have a great body. Not yet. So I'll leave that no-shirt look to the others.
February, 2001
"It's not important to displace Shah Rukh Khan or Amitabh Bachchan. It's more important to be like us first.
February, 2001
"Success has humbled me but not my arrogance.
February, 2001
"Once we make inroads into the market abroad, I'm sure we can have Julia Roberts dancing with me on the streets.
May, 2001
"I'm like a circus monkey who'll do somersaults, jump through hoops of fire. I'll do anything to entertain.
December, 2001
"When I look around I see that actors are happy with so little. All they want out of life is a Mercedes or a big house.
December, 2001
"Asking me if I'm bisexual is as insane as asking me, Don't you fall in love with your heroines?'
February, 2002
"Just because younger heroes have arrived on the scene doesn't mean I'm old.
February, 2002
"The newcomers will have to get a few discs and bones removed if they want to be like me. Being Shah Rukh Khan comes with a price tag.
June, 2002
"I'd die if people didn't recognise me. I would not be able to walk on the road if people didn't mob me. That's what I work for.
November, 2002
"I know what makes a man. It takes a man to refuse an underworld film... I haven't done anything for them. And I'm proud of that.
March, 2003
"I find it strange when people tell me that I'm the same in every film. What do they expect me to do? Grow a third hand and have two noses?
March, 2003
There's nothing like the Next Best. There's either the best or it's no good. Next Best is always a compromise.
- March, 2003
"There have been times when I've felt low about my work and about the reactions I've got for it. But I don't talk about my sadness.
- March, 2005
"When I did Ishq kameena, nobody called it an item number. So item boy' is a new term. Sounds like toy boy, so it's okay. Boy' makes me look younger. Call me anything so long as it has boy' in it.
July, 2005
"I am Shah Rukh Khan and I am sex!
July, 2005
July, 2005
"There is an invisible chord that binds Aamir, Salman and me. I speak for all three of us and I can say this with conviction we are utterly fond of one another even though all three of us have philosophies that are as different as we are. - November, 2005
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