Jim Caviezel Quotes
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
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Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.
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You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
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The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
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I don't really prepare for each role the same way.
