Top 100 Vera Farmiga Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.”

— Vera Farmiga

2. “Music is what our feelings sound like.”

— Vera Farmiga

3. “There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.”

— Vera Farmiga

4. “I look for struggle in the roles I choose – struggle and perseverance.”

— Vera Farmiga

5. “My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.”

— Vera Farmiga

6. “Honesty is not synonymous with truth.”

— Vera Farmiga

7. “You know what’s more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It’s actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.”

— Vera Farmiga

8. “I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He’s the best father my children could have.”

— Vera Farmiga

9. “I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it’s man-made, because it’s man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.”

— Vera Farmiga

10. “The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.”

— Vera Farmiga

11. “I love to be surprised.”

— Vera Farmiga

12. “Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.”

— Vera Farmiga

13. “I was very studious and square in college.”

— Vera Farmiga

14. “Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.”

— Vera Farmiga

15. “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?’”

— Vera Farmiga

16. “I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.”

— Vera Farmiga

17. “In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is ‘My god is greater than your god,’ and we’re fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.”

— Vera Farmiga

18. “I can’t do Los Angeles. I’ve always been the anti-Barbie. I don’t want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.”

— Vera Farmiga

19. “Esquire’s all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.”

— Vera Farmiga

20. “It’s a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it’s man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they’re two different things.”

— Vera Farmiga

21. “When you’re breastfeeding a child, you don’t have the same retention as you do when you’re not.”

— Vera Farmiga

22. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

23. “The different tempos and yeah, it’s cadence. It’s the way she moves through space, it’s gestures.”

— Vera Farmiga

24. “There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like Down to the Bone, you have the opportunity to be of service.”

— Vera Farmiga

25. “I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.”

— Vera Farmiga

26. “My personality is just innately even-keeled. I’m not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I’m not a passionate woman. I don’t know, maybe it’s my physiological makeup, but I don’t like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.”

— Vera Farmiga

27. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

28. “We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.”

— Vera Farmiga

29. “I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it.”

— Vera Farmiga

30. “I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”

— Vera Farmiga

31. “I’m hooked on Polanski’s films, his psychological thrillers. I love ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ I love ‘Repulsion.’”

— Vera Farmiga

32. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

33. “I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family’s faith.”

— Vera Farmiga

34. “I can’t get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.”

— Vera Farmiga

35. “No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.”

— Vera Farmiga

36. “Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.”

— Vera Farmiga

37. “I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.”

— Vera Farmiga

38. “We’re all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it’s the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.”

— Vera Farmiga

39. “Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.”

— Vera Farmiga

40. “The limelight is a tricky place, because you can’t believe what’s going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.”

— Vera Farmiga

41. “Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.”

— Vera Farmiga

42. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

43. “As an actor, you’re sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.”

— Vera Farmiga

44. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

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45. “I didn’t grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.”

— Vera Farmiga

46. “I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.”

— Vera Farmiga

47. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

48. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

49. “I’m pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I’ve had a very easygoing, simple life.”

— Vera Farmiga

50. “There’s no wrong way to experience a film.”

— Vera Farmiga