Love him or even hate him, you definitely can’t ignore this hot hunk from the tinsel town of India. Many of his movies have gone on to shatter box office records and rewrite the history of Bollywood cinema time and again. Be it ‘Prem’ from ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’ or ‘Chulbul Pandey’ from the recent blockbuster ‘Dabangg’, the characters he has portrayed have left a lasting impression on the minds of Indian movie lovers. However, the actor has also been in the news for his hookups, controversies, on the face replies and equation with many other renowned actors from the film fraternity. During the recent years, the world has got to know the actor more closely through his thoughts, which he has expressed verbally through various interviews as well as the penning some. These are 25 quirky quotes from actor Salman Khan that prove he is the ultimate badass of Bollywood.
1. “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?”
2. ‘’Dad’s Pathan, Mom’s Rajput, 2nd mom’s Christian, in school they asked me what religion: dad said ‘Human’.’’
3. “I am a virgin and I am saving myself for my future wife.”
4. ‘’ 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.’’
5. ‘’There are actors who can pull of a writer’s lines; I am not competent enough to do that.’’
6. ‘’I’m not possessive; I’m caring…Once you realize a person doesn’t want that much care, you automatically back off. ‘’
7. ‘’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’’
8. ‘’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?’’
9. “Sometimes I feel I hope I’m not taking advantage of my stardom”
10. “I tried making films with messages, but now I’d rather send a text”
11. “The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.”
12. “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.”
13. “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.”
14. “I have lots of time. Why would anyone want to have time for themselves? You are 24 hours with yourself.”
15. “The only person I have hurt is myself.”
16. “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.”
17. “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.”
18. “Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.”
19. “If it is something that I want to do, then I don’t think the audience will hate it.”
20. “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.”
21. “If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.”
22. “I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.”
23. “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.”
24. “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.”
25. “The days the producers aren’t minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.”