Top 40 Jim Caviezel Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You weren’t made to fit in. You were born to stand out!”

— Jim Caviezel

2. “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

3. “Conversion is a daily thing.”

— Jim Caviezel

4. “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.”

— Jim Caviezel

5. “I don’t want people to see me – I want them to see Jesus.”

— Jim Caviezel

6. “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

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

— Jim Caviezel

8. “Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.”

— Jim Caviezel

9. “Usually people who are evil don’t see themselves as evil.”

— Jim Caviezel

10. “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

11. “Christ died for the truth.”

— Jim Caviezel

12. “I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, ‘What actor wouldn’t want to play this role?’”

— Jim Caviezel

13. “I try to be the best man I can for the day.”

— Jim Caviezel

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

— Jim Caviezel

15. “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.”

— Jim Caviezel

16. “I know I’m not an anti-Semitic person.”

— Jim Caviezel

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

— Jim Caviezel

18. “I was a basketball player. I’m a gym rat. I’m always in the gym playing.”

— Jim Caviezel

19. “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

20. “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

21. “In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.”

— Jim Caviezel

22. “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

23. “Mel Gibson doesn’t need your judgment, he needs your prayers.”

— Jim Caviezel

24. “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

25. “My faith doesn’t go over real well in Hollywood.”

— Jim Caviezel

26. “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

27. “It’s very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.”

— Jim Caviezel

28. “Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.”

— Jim Caviezel

29. “I’m a craftsman. I’m an actor.”

— Jim Caviezel

30. “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

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

— Jim Caviezel

32. “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

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

— Jim Caviezel

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

— Jim Caviezel

35. “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

36. “What actor wouldn’t want to work with Mel Gibson?”

— Jim Caviezel

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

— Jim Caviezel

38. “I didn’t want to be an actor.”

— Jim Caviezel

39. “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

40. “I don’t really prepare for each role the same way.”

— Jim Caviezel

41. “I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.”

— Jim Caviezel