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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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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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Ukrainian
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.
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Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.
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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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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.
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We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
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