Top 55 Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

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.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

I don’t use any techniques; I’m not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

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.

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.

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

I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.

What I do on film is part of my profession.

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

I feel a burden if I don’t write.

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.

Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.

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.

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 like poems and keep sharing them online.

Don’t let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.

I have fans across the globe.

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.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

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 know I should have never got into politics. And I’ve learned my lesson. No more politics.

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio – he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin’ to him – He be Gatsby.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I would rather talk to a face than a camera.

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

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

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.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

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.

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.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

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.

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 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.

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.