Quotes

Sport is one part of life. There are so many things to life but I've done nothing. I've really done nothing else but focused on shooting.

I've never been to a disco in my life.

But post my victory in Beijing, I actually wanted to quit sport and move on to something else in life.

Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.

In some sports, you have a way to come back through repechage but in the game of life, there is no such thing.

I never make friends easily. And when I do, I'm faithful for life.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.

When you are a talkative and expressive person in real life, it definitely gets difficult to play someone who is so silent.

I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political background. It was a lot of questioning and reading.

No, I don't think it is required for casting directors to be actors too. My mentor Gautam Kishanchandani cannot act to save his life!

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

I try to stay focused on the work and recognize that I've been very lucky. Maybe it's 'cause I grew up with actors, but I've seen that recognition comes and goes, so all there really is is your family and friends. You have to maintain those constants in your life. Maintain what's beyond your work.

The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world.

Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.

If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.

My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

For those with health conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, the rising cost of lifesaving medications is straining budgets, fueling undue stress, and forcing them to make difficult decisions.

On January 3, 2019, I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. It was the third time in my life of public service that I had taken such an oath, but the words were just as profound to me as the first time I spoke them.