Shah Rukh Khan’s life lessons: 25 memorable quotes

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

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

3. “Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

4. “There’s only one religion in the world — hard work.”

5. “There’s no such thing as ‘normal’, that’s just another word for lifeless. Madness (of the particularly nice/romantic kind) is an absolute prerequisite to a happy and successful life.”

6. “Success and failure are both a part of life. Both are permanent.”

7. “With a little embarrassment, you will survive.”

8. “If you like me, then raise your hands. If you don’t, then raise your standards.”

9. “No matter how hard we work leadership implies being prepared for disaster.”

10. “If at first you don’t succeed... reload and try again”

11. “Success is not a good teacher. Failure is.”

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

13. “I truly believe that humanity is a lot like me. It is an ageing movie star, grappling with all the newness around itself, wondering whether it got it right in the first place and still trying to find a way to keep on shining regardless.”

14. “I tried to reconstruct my identity on social media.”

15. “There’s no right time and right place for love. It has no age.”

16. “It’s OK to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.”

17. “Chak De India taught me that whatever it is that is pulling you back, it’s not going away unless you stand up and start forging your own path with all your might in the opposite direction. Stop whining and start moving.”

18. “Life begins when we decide it’s going to go for us.”

19. “Being brave means being [expletive] scared all the way to the party but getting there and doing the ‘Funky Chicken’ in front of all your teenage kid’s friends anyway. Don’t let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won’t even have done the ‘Funky Chicken’.”

20. 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.

21. “I don’t wear my stardom like a tuxedo, I wear it like a T-shirt.”

22. “I am like a Rolls-Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation.”

23. “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.”

24. “My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it’s a Lux ad.”

25. “I’m running in a race and people are on the other track, I’m running with myself.”