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
editing ego coins
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.
cameras helping sometimes
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.
discovery quiet-moments made
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
love-is directors rely
I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.
friendship night my-best-friend
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.
queens ties giving
It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.
tired men seeing
I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
dollars enough-time film
Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.
gay
You dont have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
compassion giving stories
I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.
prayer important praying
Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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.
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.