35 Inspirational Amitabh Bachchan Quotes On Success

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer, and former politician. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for films such as Zanjeer, Deewaar, and Sholay, and was dubbed India’s “angry young man” for his on-screen roles in Bollywood. Referred to as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ka Mahanayak (Hindi for, “Greatest actor of the century”), Star of the Millennium, or Big B, he has since appeared in over 190 Indian films in a career spanning almost five decades. Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema as well as world cinema. So total was his dominance on the Indian movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a ‘one-man industry’. He also had a large overseas following in markets such as Africa (especially Egypt) and the Soviet Union. May his quotes inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams. 

1. “No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.” Amitabh Bachchan

2. “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 judgment.” Amitabh Bachchan

3. “People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.” Amitabh Bachchan

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

5. “Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.” Amitabh Bachchan

6. “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.” Amitabh Bachchan

7. “Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.” Amitabh Bachchan

8. “I’d like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I’m sure there is lots more for me to do because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.” Amitabh Bachchan

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

10. “Change is the nature of life.” Amitabh Bachchan

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

12. “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.” Amitabh Bachchan

13. “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

14. “Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what’s happening in the world.” Amitabh Bachchan

15. “Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts come together, that can be more positive than an individual thought.” Amitabh Bachchan

16. “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

17. “I think that it’s important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it’s a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.” Amitabh Bachchan

18. “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

19. “Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.” Amitabh Bachchan

20. “Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.” Amitabh Bachchan

21. “I know I should have never got into politics. And I’ve learned my lesson. No more politics.” Amitabh Bachchan

22. “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!” Amitabh Bachchan

23. “I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.” Amitabh Bachchan

24. “I’ve accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.” Amitabh Bachchan

25. “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

26. “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.” Amitabh Bachchan

27. “Perfection needs effort to get it right. I need to rehearse for it. Many others who are greatly more efficient than me, do not. To each his craft! And I am no legend!” Amitabh Bachchan

28. “No is an entire sentence in itself.” Amitabh Bachchan

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

30. “I don’t know how others think about me, but if I have to walk the streets, I will, and if I need to stand in a queue at the airport, that’s ok.” Amitabh Bachchan

31. “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

32. “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

33. “I think, in any profession, what you fear most is not being able to perform, about not being able to meet new challenges. The fear of non-acceptance, particularly if in creative art. What happens if the audiences do not like you anymore!” Amitabh Bachchan

34. “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

35. “Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.” Amitabh Bachchan