Jim Caviezel
Jim Caviezel
James Patrick "Jim" Caviezelis an American actor, best known for portraying Jesus Christ in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Other notable roles include Private Witt in The Thin Red Line, Detective John Sullivan in Frequency, Catch in Angel Eyes, Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo, golfer Bobby Jones in Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, and Carroll Oerstadt in Déjà Vu. From 2011 until 2016, he starred as John Reese on the CBS science-fiction crime drama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth26 September 1968
CountryUnited States of America
In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.
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 didn't want to be an actor.
I just try to be the best Catholic.
I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person.
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.
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]
Faith to me it’s believe without seeing, it’s how you live your life, how you are authentic.
I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
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.
My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.
I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.
I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.
It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.