Quotes by Amitabh Bachchan - Page 3

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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Affluent
Eastern
Function
Blend
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Amount
Body
Phenomenal
Religious
Remarkable
Way
Wonder
Became
Happening
No Wonder
Ways
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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 / Film Actor
English Literature
Harvard
Hindi
Prominent
Literary
Giant
Universities
Writes
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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 / Film Actor
Acceptable
Acting
Appreciated
Better Tomorrow
Body
Insecure
Pursue
Tomorrow
Worry
Job
Face
Away
Go Away
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Home
Accomplish
Butterfly
Creative People
Hunger
Night
Restless
Stomach
Wonder
Butterflies
Essential
Feat
Go Home
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Amazed
Beard
Controversy
India
Land
Way
Life Me Day
Naturally
Life Me Grow
Editorial
Lands
Normally
Possibly
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Wisdom
Behave
Boundaries
Choices
Force
Judgement
Light
People
Thinking
Will
Because
Go
Make
Own
You
How
Dress
Meet
Shadows
Tell
Where
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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 / Film Actor
Hairdresser
Makeup
Ladies
Percentage
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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 / Film Actor
Apprehension
Aspect
Filled
Profession
Venture
Commonly
Continuously
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Cinema
Colorful
Indian
Large Numbers
Numbers
Below
Escape
Hardships
Poverty Line
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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 Bachchan / Film Actor
Dance
Action
Comedy
Emotional
Format
Good Actors
Greater
Hollywood
Indian
Just One
Singing
Perform
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I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. It's more instinctive rather than anything else. I don't do the calculated rehearsed kind of approach, and I hope that I can continue that because I believe that instinct is much stronger and greater when you are performing on camera.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Believe
Stronger
Technique
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If you represent a fantasy for the people who actually go to the cinema, they grab that and go with it; therefore, for the rest of their lives, they actually identify you with a certain thinking - a certain philosophy. There are many actors who want to pursue that same thought in real life as well, and that's perfectly acceptable.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Acceptable
Cinema
Pursue
Real Life
Life Thinking People
For The People
Grab
Identify
Perfectly
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Musical
Numbers
People
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Dirty
Ideas
Pain
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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.
Amitabh Bachchan / Film Actor
Girl
Father
Years
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