Abhishek Bachchan Quotes

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

I don't like my physique at all.

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

Men work on their bodies. They want to be looked at.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.

To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

I think to take your shirt off, you need to have a great body and more than that, confidence and attitude. It's all related. A great body equals confidence, and confidence equals attitude. And when you put all three together, you get a Salman Khan! And that's not me.

I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.

A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better.

My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true.

My abs were my bread and butter in the U.K. - the calendars, the photoshoots, and all that came with it.

I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.

I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.

Audience doesn't necessarily come only to see a hero with six-pack abs. They will watch him, but if someone who doesn't have that physique and is playing the protagonist, they'll watch that too.

I believe I'm better looking as a dude than a girl.

If I have to change for a character, I need really logical reasons to look a certain way. Otherwise, I have finally cracked the code in being comfortable in my own skin regardless of what's fed to you of how you must look.