"I don't like to join in any political party. I would like to stand on my own legs. I don't like the politics. In cine field, there are so many persons involved in politics. They ask me to join in any political party so that i can get more cinema chances. But, i don't like to go on their way.. I don't like politics...."

- Rajnikanth in his articles "My Friends" in Visitor Magazines dated 15.12.1979

Source : Published in Kalki weekly in the year of 1995