SRK, unplugged

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Deepika Padukone said to the media that she wanted to touch my body? Why? She should have talked to me! Do you want to touch my body?

Mansoor Khan once told me, 'Finally, we have some ugly faces becoming heroes.' I told him, 'Are you talking about Ajay Devgan?' Jokes apart, I think Ajay and I are the two ugliest heroes around.

You want to see my muscles? Let me tell you, I have muscles in all the right places.I want to start an academy; I don't want to sit on my money. I am not saying that I am doing social work. It's just that I have principles in life. If that can change anything, I'll feel as if I fulfilled the purpose of my life. Hopefully, by the end of it, I will be able to change many youngsters' lives.

T20 is not a gamble – it is sheer passion. I wanted to start from the sport that is popular – cricket – and use the profits to help develop other sports as well. If I go to a cricket match, it is because I like to watch sports. I also enjoy badminton, tennis, or for that matter, kanche. Main kanche bahut acche khelta tha!

Why should I have tried for the Delhi team? In any case, I would not have been able to afford them. But then, don't regionalise the game. It is, after all, about India. I am not a businessman. I have reached that juncture in my life where I can give something back to the youth. I would like to provide the best infrastructure to the youth. I wanted to go to hockey matches, football matches. I don't think I need any medium to promote my films. If not an actor, I would surely have been a sportsman. I used to play hockey and football in school and college. It was when I realised that I couldn't be a sportsman that I came to Mumbai to be an actor.

It's strange that I am considered a youth icon. I believe that the youth likes me for the kind of person I am and not because I dance well or act well or look good. It's been a 17-year-long career and they have seen the hard work I have put in. They see me and get motivated to go for the gold. Make your dreams come true, go to a town where nobody knows you and make a name for yourself there.

(On smoking) Actually, people have more intelligence than you credit them with. I have also watched movies as a kid, but they never motivated me to copy them. Finally, what we do is what our heart tells us to do. There are very few people whom on screen characters can sway. Even in Don, I tell Kareena, 'Don cigarette chodne ki koshish kar raha hai. It kills you...' We want to convey the message subtly. Whenever I come to Delhi, people don't say that he is drunk, vulgar and a smoker. Instead, they say that he is an educated, articulate and well-bred guy.