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.
Interpretation
Recognition is less important than doing your job well.
Amitabh Bachchan emphasizes that despite being labeled with grand titles like 'icon' or 'superstar,' he views himself primarily as an actor dedicated to performing his craft to the best of his ability. This viewpoint highlights the importance of humility and the intrinsic value of hard work over outward recognition and fame.
In practice
During an award acceptance speech to emphasize humility in success.
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.
I think every actor would wish there is some challenge that is left. I would consider to be creatively dead if I were to say that I am satisfied now.
Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.
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.
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.
Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.
Sweat equity is the best equity.
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