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

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Vera Farmiga Quotes

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

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

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

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Vera Farmiga

I was very studious and square in college.

— Vera Farmiga

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

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

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Vera Farmiga

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Vera Farmiga

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.

— Vera Farmiga

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Vera Farmiga

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

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

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

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

— Vera Farmiga

Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog.

— Vera Farmiga

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

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