Quotes from Vera Farmiga


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


Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.


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


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


I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'


I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.


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


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


In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.


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.


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


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.


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


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


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


Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.


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.


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.


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.'


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.