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.
AMITABH BACHCHANI don’t use any techniques; I’m not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
More Amitabh Bachchan Quotes
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Riding a Harley is a world of its own.
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Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
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Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
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I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.
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I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.
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I am not as intelligent as Aamir Khan . I am barely managing to be in front of the camera. There are many people who know marketing well and surely Aamir knows much more than I do.
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A drop of water with love. From they that love; to them that love.
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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.
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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.
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An epic era has drawn curtains, never to happen again.
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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
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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!
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When you wait in the admired company of he that created it.
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The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say ‘it’s in!’
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And music the best friend of your mind.
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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.
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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.
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When you’re younger, it feels like you have to please the entire world. You don’t.
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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.
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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.
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I’d love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I’m 58 now. So I have to play her father.
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There are moments in a film when the written word for you, becomes the written word for the Universe.
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If music be the food of love play on give me excess of it.
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I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.
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Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.
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If music be the food of love play on give me excess of it.
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