Top 139 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Momoa - Page 2

I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

Both my parents were painters.

I've been fascinated with Maori culture since I was a kid.

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 actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

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

You get a lot of respect for 'Game of Thrones,' and it was a lot of fun to play, but it didn't help my career a lot because Khal Drago doesn't even speak English.

In my man cave, I have tomahawks, throwing knives, and old black-bear furs. There's skulls, weapons everywhere.

Train hard, train hard, train hard.

I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

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

Emilia Clarke is someone I'm very close to, like a sister, and I love her very much.

If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

Zack Snyder is a huge fan of 'Game of Thrones,' and I met him in the training stunt facility that I train at, and I guess he really liked me because he later called me into his office, and we talked about playing Aquaman.

I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

Most people don't know who I am in the industry. I'm far from 'Conan' and 'Game of Thrones.'

We don't own a TV. My kids are always outdoors.

I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'

There's nothing I've ever worked on that beat 'Game of Thrones' - that's a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.

I do love horses, but I'd rather be on motorcycles.

I'm a big softie.

I'm a father, a son, and a grandson, and if anyone messed with my wife, mom, or grandmother, and if the law didn't care about it, what would I do? Would I be defined by that action?

There aren't, like, four Aquamans before me. I get to set the tone for it.

I'm a big wuss, and not the king in the least. My wife is.

I'm a big kid, you know?

I would love to do comedy.

I'm a walking contradiction.

My kids are my greatest piece of art.

My son loves swords and shields and dragons.

Both my parents are artists, so that just makes me look at everything slightly different. I listened to different music; I dressed differently. So I kind of grew up without following the pack.

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.

I'm a Batman fan from Day 1. My daughter's favorite is Wonder Woman, and my son loves The Flash, Cyborg, and Superman.

Me and my son got pictures on the Batmobile. I'm a big kid.

There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.

I love working with Oscar winners.

I did 'Batman v Superman' for one or two days.

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

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.'

My wife's Lisa Bonet. I'm a very lucky man.

Iowa is an amazing place. But I didn't have much race around me. I was definitely not like everyone there.

When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.

There's a couple of things you shouldn't do to other humans and you shouldn't say to other humans that Khal Drogo does.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.

When you're just an actor, you do your role, and then you're in your trailer. It's not as hands on as when you're directing. You live and breathe it.

When I'm acting, I wish I was out there, being a part of it and making it. It's all on your name to do that. It's your vision. You're going to get slandered for your work, and I like that. As an actor, it's so hard. I'd rather direct than act.

How far would you go to protect your family? I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a grandson, and I'm a husband. If someone were to hurt the women in my life and the law didn't take care of it, what would I do? Pretty awful things.

I lay naked in furs a lot. I think I'm naked more than I talk.

You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

Like it or not, I'm the new f***ing Aquaman buddy.

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

People who know me, know who I am.