Vera Farmiga
Vera Farmiga
Vera Ann Farmigais an American actress, director and producer. She began her career on Broadway in the play Taking Sides. She made her television debut in the Fox fantasy series Roar, and her film debut in the drama-thriller Return to Paradise...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 August 1973
CityClifton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
buddhist temples tunes
I'm someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.
important lines transparency
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.
holiday holy-days catholic
Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.
jobs character independent
I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.
knives bread
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
inspiring mothers-day mother
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
actors massage directors
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
soul battle integrated
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
perspective film ought
You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
weed new-york moving
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.
hate nuance belief
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.
spiritual thinking film
Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
spiritual fit denominations
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.
stories inspiring-stories
I chase after inspiring stories.