Quotation Wednesday – The Shahrukh Khan Edition

by the messy optimist

“Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.”

“Don’t become a philosopher before you become rich.”

“Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It’s their little happiness.”

“Art is more important than the artist – have no attachment to your own art. It is regressive, move on.”

“Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.”

“Don’t ever treat your little insanities as if they are aberrations that ought to be hidden from the rest of the world.”

“The innermost secrets you should confide to your mother and your fears to your father. I have neither, so I end up confiding it to my acting.”

“Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won’t matter and people who matter won’t mind it.”

“More than an actor, I am a performer… I’m a great believer – honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so – that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there’s the postal service.”

“When you get to be 50, you will know that the bulk of your regrets are from not having done what you wished to do.”

“If you aren’t charged up about doing something, if you don’t have what in Hindi we call the “Josh”, the fire in your belly for it, then don’t do it.”

“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.”

“There might come a time when you feel lonely. That is when your creativity will be like your best friend.”

“You never win the silver, you only lose the gold.”

“Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don’t be bound by rules, don’t hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else’s dream.”