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When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

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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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 rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.
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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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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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Faith is important to me.
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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'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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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 thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.
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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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My husband is my best friend he knows my sensibilities.
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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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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.
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I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.
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