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Personal Quotes
(December 2001, about Hrithik Roshan): I wish I looked as good as he does.
And I wish I danced as well as he does!
Yes, I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have
them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything
in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but
you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise
what's the point in life?
I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone
else
I cannot repay my fans for what they have done for me, they have given me
so much love and that love has taken me to the number 1 position where I
am today, the only thing I can do for my fans is to never stop working,
and to do films till the very end, it is the only way I can express my
love for them.
To me, Devdas is the end of love stories. I've portrayed an obsessed
lover, a nice lover, an angry lover, a romantic lover. And now I've played
Devdas. For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an
awful lot of lovers. Personally speaking, I wouldn't see any of the
romantic films I've acted in.
I'm the luckiest man in the world and I don't want to hide from the faces
I'm acting for. So I don't surround myself with guards, I've never given
an interview in which I've said I feel bad that I can't go shopping or I
can't go to Chowpatty and eat bhelpuri without being mobbed. I'm not the
kind of guy who goes out wearing dark glasses (I don't think I'm a big
enough star to hide behind them, honest). I go to see movies in the cinema
theatres, I go to restaurants with my family and friends even though I
know people are going to disturb me there.
God has become a generic term like `mind blowing.' It is embarrassing. I
would have said that to Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar.
I used to tell them I want to stand in the same space as you. I've told
Kamal Haasan, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When
people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I
still have a long way to go.
(August 2004): Awards that ignore me are losers.
(August 2004): I'm try-sexual. I try anything that's sexual.
(August 2004): I have no competition. Every year the names I'm pitted
against keep changing. You can't cream the competition, you have to kill
it.
I keep hearing that our films are escapist and unreal but I find our films
the most real in the world. We don't have people going up in a rocket and
single-handedly blowing up a meteor. We don't have a president on Air
Force One saving the world or things coming out of people's stomachs. Our
fantasies and escapism are real. It's just people singing and dancing in
the street. If England had won the World Cup you would have seen people
singing and dancing like that.
I don't like wearing dark glasses. I'm happy with the fact that people
know me. I want people to scream and shout at me, I want people to trouble
me when I'm having lunch, I like six bodyguards around me. I love being a
star. I find it very strange when people who are famous say they don't
want to be photographed. I don't want to be photographed first thing in
the morning, I don't want people peeping into my bedroom, but besides
that, it's a wonderful life.
"I haven't given up smoking. I'm very clear about it, it's a personal
choice. I want to cut down on it. It shouldn't be made into an issue to
say, damn good or damn bad. Whether I give it up or not shouldn't be an
issue." (Movie Mag, May 2006)
"I was supposed to have done Rang De Basanti (2006), the guy on the
motorbike. I didn't have the dates. They were shooting in Delhi and the
dates were clashing with Paheli." (Movie Mag, May 2006)
"It's not like Steven Spielberg is waiting with a script for me. I don't
think I'll ever be offered a great international film in my lifetime, so
I'd rather be a king here. Moreover, Indian cinema is the greatest in the
world. But of course, after spending three months in LA, London, and New
York I found that our cinema is a little exaggerated. To make a mark in
the West we have to reach their level without losing our identity, culture
or songs. I don't want to star in a Hollywood film, but want to make a
film that crosses over universally." (Movie Mag, May 2006)
On trying to get Paheli (2005) an Oscar nomination: "There's a misreport
here about our lobbying at the Oscars. The understanding that we have of
the Oscars is very different from how it really is. Because Indian film,
foreign films are not known, you're supposed to hire a PR company which we
did. It's not as if you just go there, show your films, lobby and talk to
them. You're not allowed to lobby as in you're not allowed to meet the
Academy members, talk to them or even make a call to them. You just keep
advertising in the 'For Consideration For Oscars' category. We took out
full page ads in papers like Variety and Hollywood Reporter. The only good
thing we did was that we advertised very frequently, it was promoted on
the same scale as the biggest of films. We did it because we could afford
it." (Movie Mag, May 2006)
"I felt Asoka (2001) should have been chosen for the Oscars. We had worked
towards that. We had these international distributors for it. We were the
first to actually release an Indian film internationally in traditionally
non-Indian theaters. We spent a lot of money and lost a lot of money too.
We were the first to put up boardings in London, in tube stations. We did
speak to everyone who was anyone here, wondering if Asoka could go to the
Oscars. But the one that got chosen was Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
(2001) which was even better. So we had no complaints. After that I didn't
make any film for the foreign market." (Movie Mag, May 2006)
You must respect your seniors, bu never get intimidated by them. Winning
should be a habit, not an option. The four Hs are important when you play
to win --- honesty, humor, hard work and a bit of haraamipan.
I don't look at the figures that my movies make. The only figures I look
at are girl's figures. (When asked to comment on what he felt about the
figures his movies gross.)
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always
works.
If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I
don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.
I don't kiss on screen. Period.
There are only two Khans. Ghenghis Khan and Shahrukh Khan
Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough.
You never win the silver, you only lose the gold.
I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the air hostess asks me
two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for
the entire flight.
The dream I chased, took me on a journey. A journey more rewarding then
the goals, the achievements. When I look back it's like facing a million
mirrors. Each reflection opens a window. A window to the world I've just
discovered. The world I want to share with all of you.
If I am a role model, I must be the worst one in the world.
I've never had a girl make a pass at me.
Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust and jealousy are the
essential ingredients of love.
The collar-bone is my favorite part of the human body.
If asking me whether sleeping with X or Y gives the media pleasure, then
so be it. It's a small price to pay.
Where Are They Now
(September 2004) He is doing a world wide concert with Preity Zinta, Saif
Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Arjun Rampal, and Priyanka Chopra.
(June 2009) Shooting for My Name is Khan in San Fransisco.
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