Vera Farmiga Quotes
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I love to be surprised.
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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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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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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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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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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 am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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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, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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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.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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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'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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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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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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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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Faith is important to me.
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No! The other thing, that God brought us together for a reason.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.