Jim Caviezel Quotes

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

Conversion is a daily thing.

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'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 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 was freezing in that loincloth.

Christ died for the truth.

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

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 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.

Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

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.

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

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

I just try to be the best Catholic.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I didn't want to be an actor.

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

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

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

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

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

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