Ajay Kalahastri Naidu (born February 12, 1972) is an American actor.
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.
When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.
I think that rap is narrative, when it's done 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.
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.
I hear music as narrative.
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.
America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
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.
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 knew I was happy when I was dancing.
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.
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.