Salman Khan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
-
Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
-
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
-
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
-
I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
-
My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
-
I never allow myself to be pressured.
-
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
-
In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
-
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
-
You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
-
I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
-
I love recording music.
-
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
-
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
-
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
-
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
-
I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
-
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
-
Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.
-
I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.
-
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
-
So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
-
I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
