Quotes from Jim Caviezel

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

I just try to be the best Catholic.

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 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.

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

Conversion is a daily thing.

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.

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.

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

Christ died for the truth.

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.

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.

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

I was freezing in that loincloth.

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.'

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.