Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
— Vera Farmiga
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
Faith is important to me.
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.
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.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
