[Pope John Paul] said Jim Caviezel, what have you learned in playing Jesus Christ? I said, well, Holy Father, I've been hanging out with -- he goes, yes, I said I think Jesus was Italian. He said, what? I said, well, he didn't leave home until he was 30. He always hang out with the same 12 guys, and his mother, believed he was God. So he had to be Italian, you know. [*rimshot*] I said, you're not upset with me.
"He said, no, I always believed he was Polish." [*rimshot*]