Amitabh Bachchan

Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together. ”

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics. ”

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation. ”

You don't get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together. ”

I miss the camera each moment and each day. ”

Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best. ”

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering. ”

I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do. ”

I like poems and keep sharing them online. ”

The body is an amazing system. ”