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.Collection: Thankful
I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Fear
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Change
'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.
Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.
No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.
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.
People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.
What I do on film is part of my profession.
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.
Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
Ram Gopal Varma is a most noteworthy talent and has given us some very valuable iconic films. I enjoy working with him.
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.
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 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 sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.
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.
I think 'Crouching Tiger' is a genre of its own, and it's extremely well done, and God bless them for it.
There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.
Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.
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.
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'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'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.
'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.
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 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.
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.
Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.
It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.
I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.
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.
Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.
I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.
I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.
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.
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.
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.
I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.