Jim Caviezel Quotes

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.