Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

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.

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

I am tired of doing stupid comedies. Though comedy has given me the breakthrough in the industry, I constantly feel the need to grow.

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

I don't want to be just a performer.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope of organically sharing my gifts with an audience in the most heightened way I possibly can.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.