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
approach pragmatic practicals
Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.
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.
dad father holiness
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.
country dancer unions
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.
moving hands essence
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.
children husband father
I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
baby rosemary film
I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
hollywood needs
I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
running home roosters
To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.
parenthood remember
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
christian catholic my-family
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
inspirational dance growing-up
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
long details littles
I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore that long tartan skirt and the ruffled blouse for that.
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.