Jim Caviezel Quotes

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversion is a daily thing.

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

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.

Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

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

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

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.

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.'

Christ died for the truth.

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

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

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

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

I didn't want to be an actor.

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

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

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]

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

I just try to be the best Catholic.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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