Jim Caviezel Quotes

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

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching 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 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 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 know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.

I just try to be the best Catholic.

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

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

I didn't want to be an actor.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Conversion is a daily thing.

Christ died for the truth.

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

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.'

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

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

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