I've told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, 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.
Interpretation
Shahrukh Khan expresses humility despite his fame, recognizing the greatness of his peers in acting.
In this quote, Shahrukh Khan emphasizes his admiration for legendary actors, acknowledging their superior talent and contributions to the art of acting. He humbly rejects the notion of being a 'God' in the industry, instead seeing himself as still learning and growing, which highlights both his dedication to his craft and the respect he holds for his colleagues.
In practice
This quote can inspire aspiring actors during a workshop to maintain humility and respect for the craft.
No - Kajol can never go anywhere. Kajol is absolutely hearts and minds and memories and silloys for ever and ever. I think if I was to, I wouldn't be exaggerating I if say in our times of film-making she's a beautiful living legend.
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation
If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards
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.
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is expected. It's important for North African writers to show they have other things to say.
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