Vera Farmiga famous quotes

Music is what our feelings sound like.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Feelings #Sound #Music Is

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

#Character #Encounters #Female

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Differences #Making A Difference #Want

Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog
-- Vera Farmiga

#Needs

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Fighting #Names #Rude

Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Party #People #Rooms

There's no wrong way to experience a film.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Way #Film

I was very studious and square in college.
-- Vera Farmiga

#College #Squares #Studious

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Editing #Ego #Coins

I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Mother #Children #Reading

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Sense Of Humor

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Issues #Breastfeeding #Etiquette

I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Son #College #Eight

I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Children #Stress #School

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Husband #My Best Friend #My Husband

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Character #Writing #Levels

I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Looks #Done

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

#Parent #Anxiety #Obsession

The writers could always do an about-face and change everything
-- Vera Farmiga

#Faces

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Simple #Childhood #Tragedy

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Media #People #Want

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Laughing #Cameras #Difficult

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."
-- Vera Farmiga

#Character #Victory #Watches

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Mother #Memories #Kids

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Uncles #Masterpiece

My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Wine #Makeup #Glasses

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Done #Chekhov #Ready

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Thinking #Actors #Fame

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
-- Vera Farmiga

#Baby #Rosemary #Film

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Children #Husband #Father

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Christian #Catholic #My Family

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Parenthood #Remember

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Knives #Bread

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Country #Dancer #Unions

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Mother #Aunt #Feminist

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Soul #Battle #Integrated

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Soul #Feels #Your Soul

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Perspective #Film

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Weed #New York #Moving

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Character #Want #Despise

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Actors #Massage #Directors

Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Dollars #Enough Time #Film

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Discovery #Quiet #Moments

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Hollywood #Needs

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Dance #Growing Up #Stories

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
-- Vera Farmiga

#Character #Self #Research

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Men #Thinking #Two

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Ignorance #Doubt #Cynicism

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Important #Lines #Between The Lines

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
-- Vera Farmiga

#New York #Upstate New York #Association

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Growth #Enlightenment #Roles

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Thinking #Use #Sense Of Humor

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Perseverance #Struggle #Looks

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Ambition #Thinking #Ambitious

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Character #Actors #Lawyer

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Awakening #Portraits #Intimate

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Years #Age #Twists

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Spiritual #Thinking #Film

I chase after inspiring stories.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Stories

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Children #Years #Grew

Faith is important to me.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Important

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Editing #Actresses #Process

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Prayer #Important #Praying

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Religious #Fun #Three

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Opportunity #Thinking #Acting

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Jobs #Character #Media

You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Religious #Praying

You dont have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Gay

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Tired #Men

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Thinking #Community #Tactics

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Thinking #Definitions #Energy

I love to be surprised.
-- Vera Farmiga

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Hate #Nuance #Belief

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Jobs #Character #Independent

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Father #Holiness #Importance

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Believe #Limelight #Tricky

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
-- Vera Farmiga

#War #Thinking #Self

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Mean #Independent #Home

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Mother #Daughter #Character

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Excitement #Moments #Terror

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.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Country #Barbie #Noses

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'.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Friendship #Night #My Best Friend

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Truth #Honesty #Reality

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Thinking #Giving #Choices