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Amitabh Bachchan

Born: October 11, 1942

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Actor, producer, singer

Biography: Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the angry young man of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades. Bachchan is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema.

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Amitabh Bachchan

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

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“Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.”

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“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.”

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“I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.”

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“I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.”

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“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.”

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“I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.”

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“It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.”

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“Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.”

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“No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.”

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“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.”

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“We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.”

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Source/Notes: To Farhan Akhtar, after a private screening of the film, Lakshya, reported in Cine Blitz (2004).

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“He never gave us a script and we never asked - we were safe in his hands.”

- Amitabh Bachchan

Source/Notes: On Hrishikesh Mukherjee, reported in Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema (2003), p. 492.

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“What is intrinsically good will never change its character, no matter where it is found.”

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Source/Notes: Soul Curry for You and Me: An Empowering Philosophy that Can Enrich Your Life (with R. D. Tailang, 2002), p. 21.

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