Quotes from Amitabh Bachchan

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

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

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.

People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it's just that I can't help it; it's in my genes.

A lot of my fighting qualities I inherited from my parents. They set tremendous examples right through my life.

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

Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best.

I want to perform and be tested; I want the vibrant energy of the younger generation of directors and actors to rub off on me.

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by.

I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.

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

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.

I just feel that sooner or later, the sheer potential of the demographics of India, which is 1.25 billion people, will eventually be very attractive to the entertainment industry.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

If the modes are changing, one goes along with it, I guess.

I miss the camera each moment and each day.

I am not conscious of the fact that something special should be done for me.

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

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

Foreigners have no idea of the diversity of India and its culture. We hope to be able to give them a glimpse of that diversity.

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.