Jim Caviezel

“I was freezing in that loincloth.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I just try to be the best Catholic.”

“Conversion is a daily thing.”

“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.”

“Christ died for the truth.”

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

“I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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