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.

- Ajay Naidu

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.

- Ajay Naidu

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

- Ajay Naidu

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

- Ajay Naidu

There's got to be something greater than us.

- Ajay Naidu

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

- Ajay Naidu

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.

- Ajay Naidu

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

- Ajay Naidu

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

- Ajay Naidu

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

- Ajay Naidu

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

- Ajay Naidu

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

- Ajay Naidu

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

- Ajay Naidu

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

- Ajay Naidu

All India radio was worldwide.

- Ajay Naidu

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

- Ajay Naidu

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

- Ajay Naidu

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.

- Ajay Naidu

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.

- Ajay Naidu

The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.

- Ajay Naidu