Vera Farmiga

Actress

1973-08-06

Quotes by Vera Farmiga

• 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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• Music is what our feelings sound like.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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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• 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.

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• The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

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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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• 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.

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• I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

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• 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.

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• I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

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• 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.

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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'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

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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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