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" Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself? "
Karan Johar
Extend
Family
Me
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" I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it! "
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You
May
" I was one of the first early Twitter users from the film fraternity. And back then in 2009, I thought I was going to enter a world where people liked me, knew me, knew my work - it was going to be fine! All about the love, not the hate. And it was. At first. "
Karan Johar
Love
Thought
World
" I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me. "
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Me
Condemn
Affect
" I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time. "
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Time
Even
Fashion
" There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever. "
Karan Johar
Deep
Way
Love
" Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate. "
Karan Johar
Strong
Know
Mom
" I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent. "
Karan Johar
I Am
Love
Parent
" My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan. "
Karan Johar
Father
Graduation
Me
" If I did have a six-pack to show and a great waistline to put out there to the universe or beautiful muscular legs, then I would not have to pout. The only thing I have going for me is a jawline. "
Karan Johar
Universe
Great
Legs
" No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will. "
Karan Johar
Principal
Today
Day
" My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it. "
Karan Johar
Shy
Thought
Me
" In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those. "
Karan Johar
Relationships
Experience
True
" Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic. "
Karan Johar
Most
Sometimes
Vision
" I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten. "
Karan Johar
You
Proud
Lost
" Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid. "
Karan Johar
Know
Myself
Media
" I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious. "
Karan Johar
Shy
Understand
Celebrate
" Infidelity has always existed, but I feel like it was brushed under the carpet, behind the scenes. Now everyone is at it - and they've stopped pretending they're not. "
Karan Johar
Everyone
Pretending
Always
" I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone. "
Karan Johar
Know
Alone
Will
" I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic. "
Karan Johar
Who
About
Embarrassed
" Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated. "
Karan Johar
Honesty
Honesty Is
Suspect
" My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. "
Karan Johar
More
He
Father
" I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them. "
Karan Johar
Like
Torture
Phone
" I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film. "
Karan Johar
Walk
God
Life
" For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there. "
Karan Johar
Bad
Perception
Decision
" I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal. "
Karan Johar
Love
Life
I Believe
" I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse. "
Karan Johar
Animal
Kind
I Am
" I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem? "
Karan Johar
Know
Politics
Alone
" I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience. "
Karan Johar
Serious
Know
Good
" I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself. "
Karan Johar
Talent
I Am
Lie
" I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life. "
Karan Johar
Lot
Stories
My Life