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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
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Clifton
New Jersey
Vera Ann Farmiga
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I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
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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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I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog
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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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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.
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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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I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that.
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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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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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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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I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.
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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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The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.
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But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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