Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

I am not that smart.

I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.

I don't really think of myself as stupid - but then, who does?

I think if you feel weird and self-conscious about that kind of stuff - which happened to me at some points - that means your ego is really kicking in. You can understand how people get to be assholes in music business because it's like you're getting pumped full of your own thing so much, you get ungrounded. That's a dangerous place to be.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

I remember my first meeting with Guillermo Del Toro - he couldn't have been warmer, but I always had a kind of immaturity about me dealing with people that were in charge. Not really knowing how to conduct myself. And I got on the floor and curled up into a ball under a desk, which is so weird - as I was doing it, I was like, "Oh, my god, you're a freak. Get up. What are you doing?" And I looked at him like, "I'm so sorry," and he's like, "No, it's natural. Why wouldn't you want to do that?" He's just the most giving person and made me feel not like a freak.

So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

I'm good. Or maybe people just like me.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.

I’m not, like, that smart.

I have nothing intelligent to say.