Explore Quotes by Jason Momoa

I was an outcast. I was from a town of wrestlers and football players.

Whenever I wake up, I'm up. I don't lie there like an idiot. I get up, run up a hill, get some exercise, and have some time with my thoughts.

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.

When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening. I had to have that role.

I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.

My mum raised me on 'On the Waterfront,' 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Rear Window.'

I'm not really tough.

I've led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of 'I need food on the table and I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage.'

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to 'Conan.'

Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.

When I got 'Stargate: Atlantis,' I said, 'Man, I'd love to be on HBO.'

I go train, and like with Conan, I'm in leather, and with Drogo, I'm in leather or armor or something else. I'm not in my adidas sweat suit or my matching tracksuit pants to go work out. I got too busy of a day. I've got my boots.

My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess you could say my mom gave me her eyes.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.