Salman Khan's Quotes

I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

In life go straight and turn right.

A lot of the ideas or even individual technologies behind Khan Academy are not novel.

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.

I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

I don't know what I'm going to say half the time.

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

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.

I could have started a for-profit, venture-backed business that has a good spirit, and I think there are many of them - Google for instance. Maybe I could reach a billion people. That is high impact, but what happens in 50 years?

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.

In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity - labs, simulations, projects.

I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

I see a lot of people with ideas that are good from a top-down level.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.

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.

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.