Quotes from Ajith Kumar

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

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

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.

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.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

I love doing stunts, though I have to be careful with my back. As for dances, somehow I am uncomfortable doing them. I lack grace.

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

I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.

Let stars choose what causes they want to endorse without making it an issue of loyalty to the state or country.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

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.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.