Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

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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.

Amitabh Bachchan
I would say people will want to watch the younger lot rather than me. We need to give them more time. It will be a little harsh to put them aside. They are working in a much more competitive climate. They are working with many more disadvantages than perhaps we were. The audiences too, are not as tolerant as they were in my time. I think the audience gave me a lot of breathing space. I made mistakes and kept trying to rectify them in film after film. It takes a while to do away with the soiled laundry.

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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.

Amitabh Bachchan
The disturbing element of the accident was the millions of people and their expectations. Their wishes, their prayers and their feelings. And the extent to which people had gone. And you have nothing, absolutely nothing to repay them. You just sit in your bed and you just enjoy the benefit of how the others have prayed. And lots of them who really went through physical penance, when you've actually sat back and enjoyed it.

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I have never ever argued about billings because I don't think that they mean anything.

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I am very happy with what I see. The grey, the not-so grey and the camouflaged That's life. One has to live with it.

Amitabh Bachchan
One does not leave gold untouched, when one discovers the yellow metal in filth. One is ver ready to pick it up. What is intrinsically good will never change no matter where it is found. A diamond is often spotted amidst black blocks of coal. Lotus blossoms in a swamp and the beautiful rose blooms among thorns. In fact the presence of such invaluable wonders enhances the importance of a place no matter how sullied it is!

Amitabh Bachchan
I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.

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When they started bumping me off in every film, it became difficult for me to die in different styles. But now I have to start thinking of different ways of getting drunk.

Amitabh Bachchan
A seed is small in size. But it carries in its womb leaves, flowers, fruits, nay even the whole tree. The human brain is very much like a seed. It may not have a great shape and size. But it traps within itself endless possibilities. It is a fountainhead of thoughts and promises that can be fulfilled.

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I think it's more to do with economics now. Earlier, one used to wait in queues for hours in the heat, trying to buy a ticket, to go and see Shammiji in Junglee or Dilip saheb in Ganga Jamuna. Whereas now, thanks to the video boom, one gets the stars in one's bedroom at a snap of one's fingers. There is no mystique left.

Amitabh Bachchan
Haven't seen any of the movies in which Rekha aped me. I think it is highly improbable that a lady should ape me. If it is so, then all I can say is that i am terribly flattered.

Amitabh Bachchan
I was very shy as a child. Very shy. Lot of problems with very simple things. Like entering a restaurant all by myself.

Amitabh Bachchan
I cannot stop them. This is their affection and love and we live for this. And I hope that this love and affection remains with us so that we are inspired to work more and be able to satisfy their desires and expectations.

Amitabh Bachchan
Romantic films are in, which means we are out of jobs!

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
I do not deny the importance of truthfulness, but sometimes an untruth, which benefits someone, may turn out to be a better alternative. It is better to have an impeccable characterbut it is more important to spread love and compassion.

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It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema.

Amitabh Bachchan
There are no withdrawal symptoms yet (post retirement in 1992). I'm enjoying the feeling of being faltu.

Amitabh Bachchan
He never gave us a script and we never asked - we were safe in his hands.

Amitabh Bachchan
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
I would rather talk to the mirror than to the press. There is a part of me that remains within me and the rest goes out to the public.

Amitabh Bachchan
We should learn from the mistakes and experiences of others, particularly from those less knowledgable than we are. If our experiences are not grounded in reality, our decisions can never be correct.

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I am always embarrassed and a little awkward about receiving this sort of attention.

Amitabh Bachchan
I may be number 1-10 at the box office but that still does not mean that I am irreplaceable.

Amitabh Bachchan
Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.

Amitabh Bachchan
It is good to praise others but it important to look for faults within oneself. It is nice to be concerned about people but to be introspective is even nicer.

Amitabh Bachchan