"Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed"
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Then the second sentence contracts the whole universe down to one body: “I felt redeemed.” Not “I succeeded,” not “it did well,” but redeemed - a word that carries moral weight, especially with Caviezel’s public persona and the kinds of roles and controversies that have framed him. That choice hints the stakes weren’t only professional; he’s describing a cleansing of reputation, a return from exile, a sense that whatever was said about him (or the project) has been symbolically canceled out.
The subtext is less triumph than relief. “Bust” belongs to box-office chatter, but “redeemed” belongs to faith and judgment. Put together, they reveal a celebrity negotiating two courts at once: the market’s blunt metrics and the public’s appetite for narrative punishment. The line works because it’s terse and asymmetrical - one sentence for the world’s dismissal, one sentence for the self’s reclamation.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Caviezel, Jim. (2026, January 16). Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-was-thinking-it-was-going-to-be-a-bust-i-99451/
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Caviezel, Jim. "Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-was-thinking-it-was-going-to-be-a-bust-i-99451/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-was-thinking-it-was-going-to-be-a-bust-i-99451/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.


