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 built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch,_x000D_ _x000D_ She's good for the moment, but she's never enough
My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
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