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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

Vera Farmiga

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Vera Farmiga
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 6
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Clifton
New Jersey
Vera Ann Farmiga
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some what-ifs in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.
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The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.
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You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that.
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No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.
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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like Down to the Bone, you have the opportunity to be of service.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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