Jim Caviezel Quotations

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed.

I look at this as a service. I enjoy that.

I don't know if you could ever prepare for that. Nick Nolte told me one time, fame is like a red balloon. It just blows up, gets bigger and bigger. It's just full of hot air.

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

Conversion is a daily thing.

Christ died for the truth.

In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.

I didn't want to be an actor.

I just try to be the best Catholic.

I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]

Faith to me it’s believe without seeing, it’s how you live your life, how you are authentic.

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman does that, when she destroys the life of her unborn child, then we have arrived at the limit. The level cannot go higher regarding evil.

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you become a man of your word. You become a man of conviction that you're not willing to sell out and you're really a true knight in shining armour.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.

Our whole world is entrenched in sin. There in the quiet of our hearts a woman is calling us, each one of us, back to her Son. Jesus is there for us in the Scriptures. How often do we ignore Him? We must shake off this indifference. Only the Faith and the wisdom of the Church can save us, but it requires men and women, warriors ready to risk their good names, even their very lives to stand up for the truth.

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.