Ajith Kumar

I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.

Acting is a learning process. And what you are doing in your early films is essentially picking up the nuances, the tricks of your trade. And somewhere along the line, you become analytical and learn to enjoy what you are doing.

I am not in competition with anybody; I just want to be productive.

I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.

No matter how big you are, when you go back home, your family treats you like a normal person.

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or religion of the person sitting next to him. If you look at any actor's fan base in India, you will find that they are from different regions.

I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.

I have a lot of respect for people, and I feel they are far more sensible and responsible than to ape or imitate somebody.