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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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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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The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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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 grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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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 think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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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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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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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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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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I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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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 am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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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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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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