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.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitmanβs eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
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