Latest Jason Momoa Quotes from Interviews

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• You cannot embrace the action or play the role correctly if you're having someone else do the movements for you. I want to be doing it myself, unless it's going to be a train wreck.

  Jason Momoa

  Action, Embrace, Train

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The new celebrity thing is going to take some time to get used to because I really am not used to that!

  Jason Momoa

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I wanted to know everything about the blues. I think it constantly changes for me.

  Jason Momoa

  Thinking, Wanted, Knows

  "Comic-Con 2011: Exclusive Interview: Jason Momoa Talks CONAN THE BARBARIAN, GAME OF THRONES, BULLET TO THE HEAD, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 23, 2011.

• It's not that demanding. It's fun. 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. Going through hallways where it's basically like S.W.A.T. tactical stuff. Around hallways, how to cross, how to signal everyone. Then how to hold a gun, holster the gun - everything.

  Jason Momoa

  Fun, Gun, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Character, Play, Superhero

  Source: collider.com

• I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.

  Jason Momoa

  Book, Fans, Comic

  Source: collider.com

• I was on Stargate: Atlantis for four years, playing a similar character called Ronon, who was an alien that didn't say much and grunted. I've been there and done that. Whether people have seen it or not, you want to stretch. And then, while I waited, I got The Red Road, and I'd never gotten anything like that.

  Jason Momoa

  Character, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Play, Superhero, Want

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Art, Children, Father

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Choices, Sides, Action

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Stories, Use, Want

  Source: collider.com

• I don't really have any limitations for what I want to do, as an actor.

  Jason Momoa

  Actors, Want, Limitation

  Source: collider.com

• People who know me, know who I am.

  Jason Momoa

  Who I Am, People, Know Me

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Fall, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Games, Speak English, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Names, Vision, Wish

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Play, Personality, Want

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Art, Appreciate, Together

  Source: collider.com

• I've been on shows that went for years and years and years, and I was not ready for that again.

  Jason Momoa

  Years, Shows, Ready

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Writing, Quality, Six

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Survival, Eating, Tearing Apart

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  People, Different, Crossroads

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Hurt, Husband, Father

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Dream, Children, Two

  Source: collider.com