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Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

What I do on film is part of my profession.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

I feel a burden if I don’t write.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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!

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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

– Amitabh Bachchan

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.

– Amitabh Bachchan

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