As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I’d show up at a meeting and they’d be like, ‘Oh my God, you speak English! That’s so cool.’ They didn’t really know what to do with me.
JASON MOMOAI 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.’
More Jason Momoa Quotes
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I’m kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I’ll just learn it to the absolute max.
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If I had a horse of my own that I loved and fed and knew me, it would be amazing.
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Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.
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I did ‘Batman v Superman’ for one or two days.
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When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.
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My kids are my greatest piece of art.
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There’s a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I’ve been all over that stuff. If someone told me to be quiet about that because of my profession, no. That’s my people.
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I was an outcast. I was from a town of wrestlers and football players.
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I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to ‘Conan.’
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I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.
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I’ve got kids, goats. My wife always wanted a donkey, so I bought her one.
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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.
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In my man cave, I have tomahawks, throwing knives, and old black-bear furs. There’s skulls, weapons everywhere.
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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.’
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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.
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