Amitabh Bachchan

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

“I think 'Crouching Tiger' is a genre of its own, and it's extremely well done, and God bless them for it.”

“It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.”

“As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.”

“I'm very fortunate to have spent so much time in the industry and to have lived through several generations of filmmakers, actors and technicians. There's a huge volume of experience seeing people change and seeing content change.”

“I sign a film based on the story, the role I play, and the maker.”

“We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!”

“I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'”

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

“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.”

“I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.”

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

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

“I don't agree that I have a lot of confidence.”

“I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.”

“Whatever I do becomes controversial.”

“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.”

“I miss the camera each moment and each day.”

“I am a not exactly a gadget freak and have the regular phones. But I keep multiple phones because if there's a network issue in one, then I can use another one.”

“I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.”