#25YearsOfSRK: Most interesting quotes by Shah Rukh Khan at the book launch

The foreword for the book written by SRK

"After all these years, sometimes I’m not sure whether I gave form and shape to the characters I played or whether they unwittingly give me more facets than there ever had existed. Whether it was a Rahul, Raj, Mohan or Aryan, each of them took a piece of me and departed, leaving behind a little of themselves. Call it destiny or sheer fluke, they were characters that others didn’t take up and that eventually found their way to me.”

He can’t laugh in front of camera

“Not smile, laugh, I can’t laugh. I have lot of problem laughing in front of the camera. I find it very difficult to laugh on camera and that’s the very many problems I have.” The actor added, “But the description given by my directors make me sound like a middle class psychopath – a simple, middle-class psychopath.”

He has to achieve a lot

"Lot has been left for me to achieve. There are times when I wake up in the middle of the night and think that I’ve not done anything and would love to take up new challenges.”

SRK feels so old

Talking about working with new directors, the superstar said, “I’m always drawn to people who are new and making new films because I still feel like a newcomer. I don’t feel like some thespian.” He added, “25 years? I feel so old. I feel so awkward as I sit here. Pacchis saal toh bohot bada hogaya (25 years has been a little too much). I find it very awkward I am spending 25 years here. But I have always felt that a new director would make new kind of cinema."

His statement in a magazine about Hema Malini

“Either I was wrongly quoted or may be I was badtameez and I actually said it. I say lot of things and later wonder how I said this. But I didn’t mean it, I didn’t feel it. Next day I went on the sets quietly, trying to hide myself from Hemaji. But she called me and to my utter surprise, said, ‘Either you are very famous or I’m very famous. But I have stopped working, so it’s to be your fame and when you are famous, people write all kinds of non sense. Go and get ready.’”

SRK got ‘Dil Aashna Hai’ because of his nose

“I was an odd looking boy, I spoke too fast and I was not from a film background, but they gave me an opportunity. Tell me, who gets an opportunity in his life to sit across the dream girl and she says, 'I like your nose, it’s very aristocratic and you got into my film because of that.' Woh naak jisko main chupata phirta tha, woh naak Hema Malini ko pasand aayee (Hema Malini liked the same nose I was so embarrassed about)."