40 Inspirational Amitabh Bachchan Quotes That will Inspire You

Amitabh Bachchan is the most popular actor in Bollywood. He gained great popularity during the 1980s and has since become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema. Here in this post, we have collected some of the best Amitabh Bachchan quotes, some of these quotes of Amitabh Bachchan will inspire you.

Amitabh Bachchan Short Biography

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Amitabh Bachchan was born on 11 October 1942, in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Amitabh Bachchan’s father, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was a famous Hindi poet, while his mother Teji Bachchan was related to Karachi.

Initially, Bachchan was named Inquilab which was in use during the Indian freedom struggle. The inspired phrase made was taken from Inquilab Zindabad. But later he was renamed Amitabh which means “light that will never be extinguished”.

After completing his studies from Delhi he went to Calcutta, he worked there for seven years and after that, he came to Mumbai. Nearly fifty years ago, he come to “cities of dreams” Mumbai in search of work.

His career started with the film ‘Saat Hindustani‘. After this, she did many films but she could not be much successful. The film ‘Zanjeer’ proved to be the turning point of his career. After this, he continued to hit a series of hit films, at the same time he became popular in every audience and also got his acting in the film industry.

Amitabh Bachchan, who has spent more than four decades in Hindi cinema, has received the title of ‘Angry Young Man’ from his films. He is considered to be the biggest and most influential actor in Hindi cinema.

Amitabh is such a famous actor in the film world, in which every brand wants to make a brand ambassador for his company so that the company can run in his name. For this, people are ready to give them even the asked amount. But he has worked for free for the Gujarat government and Pulse Polio.

He has received the National Film Award 3 times for Best Actor. Apart from this, he has also received the Filmfare Award 14 times. Along with films, he has also been a singer, producer, and TV presenter. The Government of India has also honored him with the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.

Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

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• “People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.” ― 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
• “No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Bad luck either destroys you or makes you the man or woman you really are.”  ― Amitabh Bachchan

• “Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “It is the luminosity of lights that illuminates our presence.. else we are just so common.”― Amitabh Bachchan
• “I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.” ― Amitabh Bachchan

• “There are many things that I feel that I have missed out on.”― Amitabh Bachchan
• “It’s a war zone, my body, one which has been through a great deal.”― Amitabh Bachchan
• “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
• “‘What will people say?’ is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Perfection needs the 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
• “I’ve accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.” ― Amitabh Bachchan

• “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
• “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.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “I know I should have never got into politics. And I’ve learned my lesson. No more politics.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.” ― Amitabh Bachchan

• “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
• “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
• “Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “I don’t use any techniques; I’m not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “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
• “As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Change is the nature of life.” ― Amitabh Bachchan

• “Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.”  ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “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
• “I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by.” ― Amitabh Bachchan

• “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.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “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.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “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 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
• “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.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “I don’t agree that I have a lot of confidence.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “You won’t achieve success by nailing horseshoe outside your door, your feet need horseshoe to achieve success.” ― Amitabh Bachchan

• “No’ is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “Having no work would be terrible.” ― Amitabh Bachchan
• “I’ve accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.” ― Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is loved by millions of people in the world. He was the first Asian actor to be modeled as Wex in London’s Madame Tussauds. He was voted the “Star of Millennium” by BBC Online in addition to big artists like Laurence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin. Apart from all this, Amitabh Bachchan always stands forward to help people.

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