The Most Quotable Celebrity Quotes of 2025: From Urvashi Rautela to Shah Rukh Khan
From absurd confessions to viral one-liners, the standout gems Indian celebrities actually dropped this year.
“₹105 crore-plus humara gross collection ho gaya hai worldwide. Just imagine, agar Hindi aur Tamil mein bhi release hoti toh ₹500 crore cross karta (We grossed over ₹105 crores worldwide. Just imagine, if we’d released the film in Hindi and Tamil, we’d have crossed ₹500 crores).”
— Urvashi Rautela said in an interview with Filmygyan about her film Daaku Maharaaj, in February.
“By virtue of being a woman, if that’s coming across as being pushy or whatever, then so be it. But it is no secret that a lot of superstars, male superstars, in the Indian film industry, have been working for eight hours for years, and it’s never made headlines.”
— Deepika Padukone told CNBC TV-18, reported by The Indian Express in October.
“It’s fundamentally a very insecure industry...Don’t look for friendships here.”
— Chetan Bhagat said in an interview with Pinkvilla in November.
“Indian films, especially Bollywood, show India in a bad light.”
— Rishab Shetty said in an interview to MetroSaga in August.
“Am I the face of Bollywood hate, and if I am, then ‘thank you’ for giving me this elevation. But do I deserve it? I don’t think so.”
— Karan Johar said in an interview to Galatta India in May.
“I’m Shah Rukh.”
— Shah Rukh Khan said after an awkward moment when a foreign journalist didn’t recognise him at the Met Gala in May.
“Meri maa ne ek chitthi chori thi, ke tumhare asli papa toh Donald Trump hai (My mother left me a letter saying that my real father is Donald Trump).”
— Rakhi Sawant said to paparazzi in October, posted by Filmygyan.
“He has a phobia of smiling in front of the camera.”
— Raghav Juyal on Aryan Khan in an interview with Bollywood Hungama in September.
“Raat gayi baat gayi (Forget about it once it’s done).”
—Twinkle Khanna on physical infidelity in an episode of Two Much with Kajol and Twinkle in October.
“Never has any award been bought or aggressive PR been done by me.”
— Abhishek Bachchan on buying awards, replying to a comment on X in October.
“I don’t drink every day, only on Sunday. It is my cheat day.”
— Sunita Ahuja said in an interview with Curly Tales in February.
“When you’re doing a nine-to-five and sitting at a desk, you don’t have to be 100 per cent present. You can take your tea breaks, chill out, walk, talk and do your job. But we can’t.”
— Kajol said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India in October.
“Per plate da hisaab hai (It’s budgeted per plate).”
— Diljit Dosanjh said while flaunting his Met Gala invite on his Instagram page.
“You have to marry Silicon Valley with a Marwari mindset.”
— Vivek Oberoi on turning entrepreneur, in an interview with CNBC TV-18 this July.
“I don’t know if it’s a reflection of our society or if it is a reflection of the fantasies of our society. I think the films which feed into the secret fantasies of men, who in their heart of hearts, look down on women, these are being fed and it’s actually very scary to see how much approval such films get from the common viewer. It’s very terrifying and it does explain the horrendous things that happen to women in a lot of places in our country.”
— Naseeruddin Shah said in an interview with Parvathy Thiruvothu at the Kerala Literature Fest in January.
“It’s 2025 and the films that get green-lit are films that belong in the 1980s and not even the good ones.”
— Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor posted on X in April.
“In our industry, the same thing is repeated for five years straight — then, when people get bored, they finally let it go. Actually, insecurity bohut badh gayi hai (there’s a lot of insecurity).”
— Nawazuddin Siddiqui said in an interview with Puja Talwar for her YouTube channel in May.
“[Bollywood] can’t even make a Pushpa…because they don’t have the brains to make a film.”
—Anurag Kashyap said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India in January.
“Do not sign a three-movie deal. Give your debutant freedom, allow them to run away. As it is said, ‘Let them free, if they belong to you, they will come back.”
— Akshay Kumar said at the Filmfare Awards in October.
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