Quotes from Ajay Naidu

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

There's got to be something greater than us.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

All India radio was worldwide.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.