Amitabh Bachchan
Overview
 
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.

Bachchan has won numerous major awards in his career, including four National Film Awards
National Film Awards
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.Every year, a national panel...

, three of which are in the Best Actor
National Film Award for Best Actor
The National Film Award for Best Actor is an honor presented annually at the National Film Awards of India to an actor who has delivered the best performance in a leading role within the Indian film industry.-Background:The Directorate of Film Festivals makes awards annually in several categories...

 category, and fourteen Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards
The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were...

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Quotations

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.

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

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

On Hrishikesh Mukherjee|Hrishikesh Mukherjee, reported in Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema‎ (2003), p. 492.

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

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

A seed is small in size. But it carries in its womb leaves, flowers, fruits, nay even the whole tree. The human brain is very much like a seed. It may not have a great shape and size. But it traps within itself endless possibilities. It is a fountainhead of thoughts and promises that can be fulfilled.

Soul Curry for You and Me: An Empowering Philosophy that Can Enrich Your Life‎ (with R. D. Tailang, 2002), p. 113.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

Reported in Cinema in India‎ (1991), p. 37.

When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.

On Rajiv Gandhi|Rajiv Gandhi, reported in Steven R. Weisman, "India a Year Later: Gandhi Leaving His Mark", The New York Times (October 30, 1985), A-1.

 
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