Salman Khan

With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.

I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.

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

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

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

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

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

I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

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.

In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.

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

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

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.

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.

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.

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

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