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The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

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
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.
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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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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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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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The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.
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There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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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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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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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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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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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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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 love to be surprised.
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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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Faith is important to me.
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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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