Top 124 Quotes & Sayings by Amitabh Bachchan
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries.
I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.
I am a not exactly a gadget freak and have the regular phones. But I keep multiple phones because if there's a network issue in one, then I can use another one.
I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.
It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.
'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.
You don't get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.
I think every actor would wish there is some challenge that is left. I would consider to be creatively dead if I were to say that I am satisfied now.
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.
There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.
I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.
The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.
Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.
Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.
My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.
I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.
I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.
Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts come together, that can be more positive than an individual thought.
I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.
No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.
Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.
I am not conscious of the fact that something special should be done for me.
I would rather be an aware citizen, and if an opportunity were to arise where I would have to make a statement, I would happily do that.
Having no work would be terrible.
I don't have anything in particular to achieve; I don't want to go any particular direction. I just want to take up the challenges of life as we go along.
I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.
I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.
Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.
I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.
I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.
Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.
It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.
I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.
We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!
Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.
Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.
I'm very fortunate to have spent so much time in the industry and to have lived through several generations of filmmakers, actors and technicians. There's a huge volume of experience seeing people change and seeing content change.
If you represent a fantasy for the people who actually go to the cinema, they grab that and go with it; therefore, for the rest of their lives, they actually identify you with a certain thinking - a certain philosophy. There are many actors who want to pursue that same thought in real life as well, and that's perfectly acceptable.
I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.
I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.
I ask you, as a citizen, is it a crime to go to the temple? And if I am propagating superstition by going to the temple, then the whole country is propagating superstition.
I'd like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I'm sure there is lots more for me to do, because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.
No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.
I am insecure about tomorrow. Will I get another job? Will it be appreciated? I will pursue acting for as long as I have a face and body that is acceptable to the people, but I still worry that if I don't do better tomorrow, it will all go away.
Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.
We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
Foreigners have no idea of the diversity of India and its culture. We hope to be able to give them a glimpse of that diversity.
There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that.
I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.
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