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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

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
Mothers
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Mother

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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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The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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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 was very studious and square in college.
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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 do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.
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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 love to be surprised.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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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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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.
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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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Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.
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The writers could always do an about-face and change everything
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