Jim Caviezel Quotes

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.

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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.'

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

I just try to be the best Catholic.

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

I was freezing in that loincloth.

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

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.

- Jim Caviezel

Christ died for the truth.

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

Conversion is a daily thing.

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel

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

- Jim Caviezel