Vera Farmiga Quotes
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.
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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 wife, as a lover, as a daughter.
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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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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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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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Whenever I wore it there were some questions whether the outfit was just too over the top. I'm like, "Do you know who you're dealing with here, and her eccentricities, her style, her flair?" These little things were sometimes those - I love it. I love having a real-life model. But I also do flush it out with my own personal experiences and my own essence, and hopefully they mesh together.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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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.
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I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.
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I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.
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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.
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I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.
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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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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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Honesty is not synonymous with truth.
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Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it's bogus, I'll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it's dishonest. You do whatever it takes.
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I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.
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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 have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
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I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.
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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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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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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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