Quotes by Vera Farmiga

About Vera Farmiga:

Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress, film director, and producer. She began her career on the stage, making her Broadway debut in the play Taking Sides (1996). Farmiga made her television debut on the Fox fantasy adventure series Roar (1997), and her feature film debut in the drama-thriller Return to Paradise (1998).
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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 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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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 relig...

Vera Farmiga

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

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

Vera Farmiga

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

Vera Farmiga

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Vera Farmiga

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.

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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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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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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 think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

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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.

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I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

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I'm just someone who marvels at God.

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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

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 mini...

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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 think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameVera Farmiga
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornAugust 6, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Film Director