Top 100 Vera Farmiga Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.”

— Vera Farmiga

52. “Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I’ve ever been privy to as an actress.”

— Vera Farmiga

53. “I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.”

— Vera Farmiga

54. “Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog.”

— Vera Farmiga

55. “It’s a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people’s lives in a way that they want me to.”

— Vera Farmiga

56. “I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.”

— Vera Farmiga

57. “Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.”

— Vera Farmiga

58. “I cannot even imagine college. I’m white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.”

— Vera Farmiga

59. “Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.”

— Vera Farmiga

60. “Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.”

— Vera Farmiga

61. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

62. “The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.”

— Vera Farmiga

63. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

64. “I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.”

— Vera Farmiga

65. “You earn very little money on independent films and I’m the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.”

— Vera Farmiga

66. “Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.”

— Vera Farmiga

67. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

68. “I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.”

— Vera Farmiga

69. “I don’t necessarily need Hollywood.”

— Vera Farmiga

70. “Faith is important to me.”

— Vera Farmiga

71. “Chekhov, when it’s done well and you’re ready for it, can actually be quite funny.”

— Vera Farmiga

72. “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.””

— Vera Farmiga

73. “I do love directing. I’m only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.”

— Vera Farmiga

74. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

75. “Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.”

— Vera Farmiga

76. “I bet you could look at every single thing I’ve ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic.”

— Vera Farmiga

77. “Partying has never been my thing. I’ve been around some wild people. I’ve been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that’s been entertaining.”

— Vera Farmiga

78. “It’s true: I don’t remember what life was like before parenthood.”

— Vera Farmiga

79. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

80. “I’m incredibly spiritual. There are like tens of thousands of denominations; I don’t fit in any one of those denominations comfortably. But I have a very personal relationship with God.”

— Vera Farmiga

81. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

82. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

83. “I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.”

— Vera Farmiga

84. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

85. “The writers could always do an about-face and change everything.”

— Vera Farmiga

86. “I’ve played a lot of mothers in my movies.”

— Vera Farmiga

87. “I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.”

— Vera Farmiga

88. “You ought to have a perspective when you’re making a film.”

— Vera Farmiga

89. “But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it’s a love story to me – between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.”

— Vera Farmiga

90. “I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don’t have the time to prepare.”

— Vera Farmiga

91. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

92. “When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.”

— Vera Farmiga

93. “I’m a full-time mom. I’ve never felt as prepared, as before maternity.”

— Vera Farmiga

94. “There’s just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.”

— Vera Farmiga

95. “Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.”

— Vera Farmiga

96. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga

97. “It’s terrifying to be the lead. There’s a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.”

— Vera Farmiga

98. “I chase after inspiring stories.”

— Vera Farmiga

99. “It’s thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.”

— Vera Farmiga

100. “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.”

— Vera Farmiga