Art & Creativity Quote by Jason Momoa

There is a swaggering self-own baked into Jason Momoa calling himself a "freaky" person for reading books. The line plays like a wink to the camera: he knows the stereotype he’s wearing. As a heavily visual pop-cultural figure, Momoa is often framed as pure physical presence - Aquaman abs, warrior charisma, big-screen brawn. So he flips the script with a deliberately low-stakes confession that shouldn’t be a confession at all. That’s the joke: the bar is on the floor, and he’s stepping over it like it’s a taboo.

The intent is disarming. By using "freaky", he preemptively defuses any whiff of self-seriousness, avoiding the dreaded celebrity posture of "I’m actually very deep". Instead, he positions reading as both normal and oddly transgressive in a culture that treats sustained attention as an endangered species. The subtext isn’t "I’m smart"; it’s "You’ve been trained to assume I’m not". He’s naming the anti-intellectual assumption that clings to certain kinds of masculinity - especially the kind that gets sold as spectacle.

Contextually, it lands in a moment when celebrity interviews reward relatability and when reading is often framed as lifestyle branding: book lists, book clubs, curated taste as personality. Momoa’s line sidesteps curation and goes for surprise. It’s a small, effective rebellion against the idea that a public image has to be one-dimensional - or that literacy is an eccentric hobby.