Quotes from Amitabh Bachchan

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 like to rate myself as a performer upfront, both in films as well as in television.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.

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.

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 agree that I have a lot of confidence.

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.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.

Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!