Candace Cameron Bure has taken a firm stance against this holiday movie cliché. The actress, writer and director refuses to say this specific, overused line. Watch the short clip to hear what line Candace will not speak on screen and why she refuses.

Television shows and movies are full of clichés. While those familiar ideas, situations and lines we recognize as clichés were, at one time, original and cutting edge, they are now nothing more than just lazy writing. In nearly everything that comes out of Hollywood, you and I could easily pick out a dozen of them and probably much more than that.

While every film and television program uses clichés in some form or fashion, one genre arguably relies on them more than any other: Christmas movies. Even though many people say they hate clichés, when it comes to Christmas movies, we are likely to let them slide, especially if it’s a movie we love and watch every year.

However, in a clip posted on YouTube, Candace mentioned a cliché line that she will not say in any holiday movie. It’s one that we have all heard hundreds, likely even thousands of times.

“Pretty early on after saying them a couple of times, I was like, ‘Here’s some things I’m not going to say anymore in my Christmas movies,” she said. “And one of them that’s always been a really big theme in Christmas movies is to ‘follow your heart.’ The Bible says that the heart is wicked and deceitful above all things – that’s Jeremiah 17:9. So, we’re actually not to follow our heart but to follow the wisdom that God gives us.”

Later in the clip, Candace shared how she handles that situation when she spots that line in a script.

“So, there’s things like that where I will look at the Christmas movies and say, ‘Hey, what’s a different type of line I can say that would point to what we should be looking at: God. And maybe it’s a direct way of saying it, or maybe it’s just in a different type of conversation.’ But I don’t ever want to lead someone in something I know is deceitful.”

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”