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It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

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
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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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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.
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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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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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I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.
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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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Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.
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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
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I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.
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