Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur... that's all me.

It's fun to be someone else.

I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.

My character from 'Panda Eyes,' Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke to me about her, and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.