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
character judging stories
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.
character victory watches
I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."
character want despise
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.
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.
character actors lawyer
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
character writing levels
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.
mother daughter character
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
character self research
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?'
jobs character media
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.
character encounters female
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
ball believable children sentence takes time turned
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.
literally movies preach types vilify
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
telling violins
I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.