Vera Farmiga Quotes - Page 4

Faith is important to me.

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

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

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.

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.

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.

Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

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

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.

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.

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.

I'm incredibly spiritual. There are like tens of thousands of denominations; I don't fit in any one of those denominations comfortably. But I have a very personal relationship with God.

Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.

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.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

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

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

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

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

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

I listened more than I asked. There's a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see - the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space.