Top 124 Quotes & Sayings by Amitabh Bachchan - Page 2

I sign a film based on the story, the role I play, and the maker.

India as a film-making nation has gained recognition, at last, at most important Western and Far Eastern forums.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

As a creative agency, the film industry is thinking great subjects, presenting them wonderfully well, and giving opportunity to new faces each day.

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.

Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best.

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.

When I wrote my first blog, I got one response. Now, I sometimes get as many as 400 responses for my posts.

I miss the camera each moment and each day.

I was born in fame. I was always recognised and known. Personally, I feel normal about it.

A lot of my fighting qualities I inherited from my parents. They set tremendous examples right through my life.

Ram Gopal Varma is a most noteworthy talent and has given us some very valuable iconic films. I enjoy working with him.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

I think 'Crouching Tiger' is a genre of its own, and it's extremely well done, and God bless them for it.

Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.

My opening words to anybody I hire are, 'I'm an extremely vulnerable person.'

I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'

The body is an amazing system.

Yes, every venture is always filled with apprehensions. But if we were to conduct ourselves continuously on that aspect, then we would lose the most important reason to be in this profession: to challenge the art of and be part of what is commonly known as our creative instincts.

What I do on film is part of my profession.

I would rather talk to a face than a camera.

I want to keep working. I shall continue to do my best.

People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it's just that I can't help it; it's in my genes.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

I want to perform and be tested; I want the vibrant energy of the younger generation of directors and actors to rub off on me.

I like poems and keep sharing them online.

I feel that, particularly because of language, we are handicapped in getting a large world audience. But Hindi cinema has the same ingredients that appeal to the whole world.

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

If the modes are changing, one goes along with it, I guess.

Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

I don't agree that I have a lot of confidence.

As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.

The film industry is large enough and has many successful icons that have taken Indian cinema to shores beyond India. I think that Indian cinema itself needs to be applauded beyond one individual.

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

I have fans across the globe.

I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by.

I feel a burden if I don't write.

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.

I really felt good after working in a film like 'Piku,' as many people could relate to my character. I got letters from my fans telling me how my character resembles to their grandparents.

I don't know how others think about me, but if I have to walk the streets, I will, and if I need to stand in a queue at the airport, that's OK.

I just feel that sooner or later, the sheer potential of the demographics of India, which is 1.25 billion people, will eventually be very attractive to the entertainment industry.

I think, in any profession, what you fear most is not being able to perform, about not being able to meet new challenges. The fear of non-acceptance, particularly if in creative art. What happens if the audiences do not like you anymore!

I'm very lucky and very fortunate to have survived and to still be working after 45 years.

I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

Kaizad Gustad is quite crazy, and he has weird ideas, and 'Boom' is one such idea. It's a crazy film by a crazy guy. It's almost a satire, a black comedy.

If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

When Shah Rukh stated, “Bhootnath... will be among the top three hits of the year!”, I told him, “Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!

It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

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. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.