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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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Catholic
Turned
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Family
Christian
Ukrainian

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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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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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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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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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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.
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Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it's bogus, I'll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it's dishonest. You do whatever it takes.
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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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I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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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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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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