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.
Interpretation
Being an icon is a complex concept that lacks a clear definition or guidelines.
In this quote, Amitabh Bachchan expresses the ambiguity associated with being labeled an 'icon.' He reflects on the absence of a predefined role or script that dictates how one should act or what one should say when embodying such a status, suggesting that the essence of being an icon is subjective and open to personal interpretation.
In practice
During a motivational talk about personal branding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in our future.
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.
The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don't speak in terms of nuance or complexity. Is that by accident? It's because our minds have been entrained to expect shorter and shorter bite-sized bits.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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