Top 30 Jason Momoa Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Jason Momoa

2. “People who know me, know who I am.”

— Jason Momoa

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

— Jason Momoa

4. “As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special.”

— Jason Momoa

5. “I grew up rock climbing.”

— Jason Momoa

6. “I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.”

— Jason Momoa

7. “I don’t really push myself upon people. I don’t have that. When it meets and things fall in line, it’s meant to happen. It’s happened that way. I just try to do my best and do my work, and then it falls in line.”

— Jason Momoa

9. “I’m raised to actually think, to use my brain.”

— Jason Momoa

10. “I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you’ll be fine.”

— Jason Momoa

11. “I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.”

— Jason Momoa

12. “I love life and if there’s something that I’m playing that I love, I’ll research it.”

— Jason Momoa

13. “I’m one of those freaky people that actually reads books.”

— Jason Momoa

14. “I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.”

— Jason Momoa

15. “I don’t want to play a superhero. Drogo may not be Superman, but it is a phenomenal role. I didn’t want to get typecast. Drogo is an exceptional character. Conan is iconic. Whether it does good or not, you just try to elevate it to the next level.”

— Jason Momoa

16. “I got called ‘pretty boy’ my whole life.”

— Jason Momoa

17. “I’m half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you – my father taught me.”

— Jason Momoa

18. “I made a conscious choice to turn down some movies that were action-based, so that I could direct Road to Paloma and show that side.”

— Jason Momoa

19. “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.”

— Jason Momoa

20. “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.”

— Jason Momoa

21. “I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.”

— Jason Momoa

22. “In this business, we have to travel so far away from our families. We have two children, so if we can work together, that’s awesome. Before I met Lisa Bonet, it was a dream to work with her.”

— Jason Momoa

23. “For right now, I’d like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven’t wanted to use someone else’s material yet, but I would with the show. It’s become an integral enough part of me now, that I could definitely tell a story in this.”

— Jason Momoa

24. “I don’t want to just play the same thing. But with The Red Road, no one has ever seen me like that. No one really even knows that I smile, have a personality and have a sense of humor.”

— Jason Momoa

25. “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.”

— Jason Momoa

26. “A lot of people don’t know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don’t even know that I can speak English.”

— Jason Momoa

27. “I’ve been on shows that went for years and years and years, and I was not ready for that again.”

— Jason Momoa

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

— Jason Momoa

29. “There are tons of things I’d love to do. I want to do comedy. It’s not that I don’t want to play a superhero, but I got to play Conan and Drogo.”

— Jason Momoa

30. “I don’t really have any limitations for what I want to do, as an actor.”

— Jason Momoa

31. “I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.”

— Jason Momoa

32. “I grew up with artists.”

— Jason Momoa

33. “I’m not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.”

— Jason Momoa

34. “To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.”

— Jason Momoa