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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
You must value the business in order to value the stock.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
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