I’m not really tough.
JASON MOMOAI’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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I’m not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.
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I’ve been fascinated with Maori culture since I was a kid.
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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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For ‘Conan,’ I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.
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I do love horses, but I’d rather be on motorcycles.
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I’m half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you – my father taught me.
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I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.
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I’m not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I’m capable of it. I was raised by a single mother in Iowa – I’m just trapped in a big, dumb body.
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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.
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I get up at 5 A.M., and I train hard. I’ve got two young children, so I have to get up early. But I like it.
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I got called ‘pretty boy’ my whole life.
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I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.
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I don’t want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.
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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.
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Game of Thrones’ is the greatest thing I’ve ever been a part of.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I was an outcast. I was from a town of wrestlers and football players.
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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.
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Swimming can be boring. To me, it’s like going on a treadmill.
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When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn’t believe it was happening. I had to have that role.
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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.
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My mum raised me on ‘On the Waterfront,’ ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Rear Window.’
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