Jim Caviezel Quotes

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.