Vera Farmiga Quotes

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Vera Farmiga

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 6, 1973

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

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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

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Music is what our feelings sound like.

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

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

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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

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I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

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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?'

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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.

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

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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

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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.

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

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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.

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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

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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.

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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.

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We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

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Faith is important to me.

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