A biography for Vera Farmigahasn’t been written yet.
“You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.”
“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.”
“The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.”
“I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.”
“Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.”
“I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.”
“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.”
“I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.”
“I don't necessarily need Hollywood.”
“Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.”
“Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.”
“I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.”
“I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.”
“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.”
“I love to be surprised.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.”
“The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'”
“I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.”